YouTube has removed a channel set up by the teenager who raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail as a mark of respect for the six-year-old and her family.

The video-sharing website said it had taken down the films posted by Aaron Campbell, 16, following his conviction for the horrific crime on the Isle of Bute.

The channel mainly featured footage of Campbell playing and commentating on violent computer games, with which he was fixated from an early age.

They included one about a horror character called Slender Man, who abducts and kills children in woods, in a similar manner to Alesha's murder.

His trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard how Campbell had wanted to be a YouTube star and the teenager's mother was reported as saying her son was "addicted" to gaming.