© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A mourner holds the order of service for the funeral of Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender lady, in Warrington, Britain March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Molly Darlington/File Photograph
LONDON (Reuters) – Two British youngsters have been discovered responsible on Wednesday of killing 16-year-old transgender lady Brianna Ghey in a “ferocious attack” in a park in northwest England earlier this yr.
The court docket heard the boy and lady, who have been 15 on the time of the homicide and can’t be named due to their age, spent months plotting to kill somebody and had a listing of a number of potential victims who they knew.
Ghey, who had agreed to satisfy the lady in a neighborhood park, was stabbed 28 occasions with a searching knife earlier than her physique was noticed by a pair strolling their canines.
Prosecutors stated Ghey’s killers had shared a whole lot of WhatsApp messages within the run-up to the homicide, sharing fantasies about homicide and torture, with the lady admitting she loved watching movies about serial killers, homicide and torture.
“The planning, the violence and the age of the killers is beyond belief. Brianna Ghey was subjected to a frenzied and ferocious attack and was stabbed 28 times in broad daylight, in a public park,” Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Ursula Doyle of Crown Prosecution Service Mersey Cheshire stated.
“Girl X and Boy Y appear to have been a deadly influence on each other and turned their dark fantasies about murder into a reality.”
Talking outdoors court docket, Nigel Parr, Detective Inspector at Cheshire Police, described the killing as “a senseless murder committed by two teenagers who had an obsession with murder, whose only motivation in killing Brianna was to experience what this would be like.”
The pair will probably be sentenced after Christmas.
