Madison Horn murder: Killer Kevin Park to lodge appeal

The killer of tragic tot Madison Horn is understood to be appealing against his conviction.

Kevin Park, 27, was jailed for 22 years for the murder of the two-year-old in her home in Kelty in April.

According to reports, the former boyfriend of Madison’s mother, Anne-Marie White, is to launch in appeal in a bid to overturn the guilty verdict.

Park was supposed to be looking after Madison while Ann Marie was at a party.

Instead, he battered the girl’s head off a wall twice and punched and stamped on her.

Prosecutors also believe he beat her with a broken pool cue.

Madison suffered 65 separate injuries, including a fractured skull, tearing to her liver and internal bleeding.

Her father Thomas Haldane reacted with fury to the news of the appeal, given to him in a letter from the Victim Notification Scheme.

Jailing Park at the High Court in Glasgow last month, judge Michael O’Grady said the crime was “wicked beyond all imagining”.

He told Park: “No sentence I can impose can truly reflect the sheer awfulness of what you have done.”