In the UK the trial of the murder of a poor, shy trans girl was concluded recently.
Two seemingly normal 15-year-olds with no previous convictions planned to murder Brianna in February this year.
The whole story is so sad, it brings a tear to your eye when you read it. It does make you wonder what hope there is for humanity when there are children around like this.
What can possibly twist two young minds this way?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/thousands-of...
At first they planned to give her a cocaine overdose, before deciding they could not afford the drug. “Let’s just stab her. It’s more fun,” said the girl, known as X to protect her identity, in one of thousands of text messages exchanged before and after the murder.
Why she and the boy – named Y – targeted Brianna is still not clear, even after a three-week trial in which the children gave evidence and blamed each other for the stabbing in Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington.
She was not their original target. There were four boys they discussed killing instead, starting in November last year. One was a boy Y described as a “nonce”. Two others were enemies of Girl X.
Another was “M”, a rival for the affections of a girl boy Y liked – he was still trying to pluck up the courage to ask her out, even after the murder, as he realised it was almost Valentine’s Day.
The defendants seemed to take delight in plotting gruesome ways of killing the boys. “If I do end up killing M, I have a really sharp blade, the same one that Sweeney Todd uses,” wrote X, who later described Sweeney Todd as her favourite film. “If we kill M can I keep some things, a couple of teeth and an eye?” she added.
Whether X used her “really sharp blade” to kill Brianna on Saturday 11 February was never established. A chef’s knife was found in her bedroom, along with a handwritten murder plan, but only her own blood was detected on it.
Brianna was introduced into their conversation on 15 December last year, as someone X was “obsessed” with. The girls had become friends after Brianna complimented her eyeliner, X later told police, and would hang out together after school.
Yet on 23 January this year, X claimed she had tried to kill Brianna with an overdose of red ibuprofen tablets. The jury was shown a message from her that read: “I gave her some today that should have been enough to kill her … but she didn’t die.”
The court heard how this may have been no fantasy. Brianna was very ill around that time, her mum told police, and vomited what she thought were grapes but may in fact have been the tablets. X denied she poisoned Brianna, and she saw the murder victim take the pills of her own accord in a supermarket toilet.
Y suggested she try a different tack, perhaps spiking a McDonald’s milkshake with sodium hydroxide.
The pair carried out the plan almost to the letter, though no one else was in earshot to hear the code word – “gay” – or see which of the teenagers stabbed her where.
In the immediate aftermath of the murder, X sent a message from Brianna’s phone to herself saying: “Girl where are you?” A clear attempt, the prosecution said, to “set up an alibi” and distance herself from the stabbing. It was X who told Brianna to only buy a single bus ticket to Culcheth that day: a “sinister” instruction which demonstrated she never intended Brianna to return home alive, the jury was told.
The teenagers did not manage to move Brianna’s body off the top path at the park, which follows an old railway line, because they were disturbed by a couple walking their dogs.
Kathryn Vize, who rang 999, said she initially thought they were being pranked by the teenagers, thinking they had left a blow-up doll in the park. But the truth was terrible: Brianna lay there face down in the mud, having been stabbed 28 times. She was bleeding to death, Y’s hunting knife having severed her jugular vein and even cut through her chest bone and ribs.
Comments
UGH!
Such viciousness and such cunning. However, there are always a few in every generation. What are their parents like?
Brianna Ghey
More information about Girl X, the main perpetrator in the murder is coming out. She seems to have been a very damaged girl with no friends who showed autistic traits. Brianna seems to have had everything going for her. Truly a tragedy, and perhaps not only for Brianna and her grieving family, but also for the families of Girl X and Boy Y.
Light in the darkness
Yes, this was an awful and inexcusable crime which should never have happened. But twisted people always find an excuse to kill. Be it gender, sexuality, identity, religion or race.
Yet I haven't seen any mention that Brianna "asked for it". I've not seen anywhere that this case shows that people shouldn't transition etc. Only outcry that the murder occurred. Even tabloids like The Sun didn't misgender Brianna. Yes, all the news agencies covered that Brianna was trans, but that was because that was part of the case.
It does not appear to be a
It does not appear to be a hate crime. They had a list of people to kill. Most of them were boys Brianna thought she was meeting friends. There is footage of her leaving the house. She looked like an average, phone-obsessed teenage girl. Both of the convicted teenagers have shown no remorse. I should think it will hit home when they realize they won't be going home for a long time. Three lives were ruined for "kicks".
Leeanna
Both the perps were quite intelligent
The girl had been using the dark web and if they had managed to move the dying girl and hadn't been caught on CCTV running away would the police have caught them so quickly?
Apparently, both come from comfortable homes though it seems they are on the spectrum, the girl also has ADHD, and the boy selective mutism. It seems that they are just sick planning to kill someone and delighting in the prospect, shows they are not normal. What the parents were doing, who knows but I suspect they are as shocked as everyone else, but perhaps we as parents should take more interest in what our children are reading, especially on the net and on social media, which mostly seem to be used by halfwits and psychos, who love conspiracy stories.
I just find it so sad that a teen girl who has endured all the trauma of being herself should die providing entertainment for two sick teenagers. And I feel for all three families who have been torn apart by this sadistic act.
Angharad
It is ironic
That the case was a front-page story in the Daily Wail, which is usually leading the persecution of trans people. Their self-righteousness makes me want to vomit.
The new advice to school regarding dealing with trans pupils, which is being driven by the Tawdry right, is apparently unworkable and will lead to test cases. However, the Daily Torygraph, which can no longer be considered a newspaper, because it is just a fanmail by demented tory voters, was very much against allowing trans children any lee-way at all. I hope the Tawdry party is smashed in the next election and never holds power again and I'd like to see the same happen to the Repugnicans at the forthcoming elections in the US,both are a blight and offensive to democracy.
Angharad