LONDON, Dec 20 – Two British teenagers were found guilty on Wednesday of killing 16-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey in a “vicious attack” in a park in northwest England earlier this year.
The court heard the boy and girl, who were 15 at the time of the killing and cannot be named because of their age, spent months planning to kill someone and had a list of potential victims they knew.
Ghey, who had agreed to meet the girl in a local park, was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife before her body was discovered by a couple walking their dog.
Prosecutors said Ghey’s killer had shared hundreds of WhatsApp messages in the run-up to the murder, sharing fantasies about murder and torture, with the girl admitting she enjoyed watching videos about serial killers, murder and torture.
An undated photo of Brianna Ghey smiling. AP Ghey’s mother, Esther Ghey, made a statement to the media after the decision. The AP attended a vigil for Ghey in Liverpool. Reuters
“The planning, the violence and the age of the killers are beyond belief. Brianna Ghey suffered a frenzied and violent attack and was stabbed 28 times in broad daylight, in a public park,” said Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Ursula Doyle of the Mersey Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service.
“Girl X and Boy Y seem to have influenced each other and turned their dark fantasy of murder into reality.”
Speaking outside court, Nigel Parr, Detective Inspector at Cheshire Police, described the murder as “a senseless killing by two teenagers who had an obsession with murder, whose only motivation in killing Brianna was to experience what was about to happen. “
The pair will be sentenced after Christmas.
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