LONDON, Dec. 20 – Two British teenagers were found guilty Wednesday of killing 16-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey in a “ferocious attack” in a park in northwest England earlier this year.
The court heard that the boy and girl, who were 15 at the time of the murder and cannot be named due to their age, spent months plotting to kill someone and had a list of several potential victims they knew.
Ghey, who had agreed to meet the girl at a local park, was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife before a couple walking their dogs discovered her body.
Prosecutors said Ghey’s killers had shared hundreds of WhatsApp messages in the run-up to the murder, sharing fantasies about murder and torture, and the girl admitted she enjoyed watching videos about serial killers, murder and torture.
An undated photo of Brianna Ghey smiling. AP Ghey’s mother, Esther Ghey, makes a statement to the media following the ruling. AP People attend a vigil in memory of Ghey in Liverpool. REUTERS
“The planning, the violence and the age of the killers are incredible. “Brianna Ghey was subjected to a frantic and ferocious attack and was stabbed 28 times in broad daylight, in a public park,” said Assistant Crown Prosecutor Ursula Doyle, of Mersey Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service.
“Girl X and Boy Y appear to have been a deadly influence on each other and turned their dark fantasies about murder into reality.”
Speaking outside court, Nigel Parr, Detective Inspector of Cheshire Police, described the murder as “a senseless murder committed by two teenagers who had an obsession with murder, whose sole motivation for killing Brianna was to experience what this would be like.” .
The couple will be sentenced after Christmas.
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