Brianna Ghey's murder couldn't have been foreseen by schools or council, says coroner
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTeenager Brianna Ghey was unlawfully killed by her classmate and her friend, but their schools or the local authority could not have foreseen her murder, a coroner has ruled.
Anxious and vulnerable, unsuspecting Brianna, 16, was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back after being lured to Linear Park, Culcheth, a village near Warrington, Cheshire, on the afternoon of February 11 last year.
Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 15 at the time, were jailed for life for the “sadistic” murder of the transgender teenager.
Brianna had been a pupil at Birchwood High School, Warrington, where she was befriended by Jenkinson who had transferred from Culcheth High School after she “spiked” a younger pupil with cannabis-laced sweets. READ MORE: LIVE Huge police cordon as emergency services swarm street following incident in Middleton - updates Following her “managed transfer” from Culcheth, where Ratcliffe was a pupil, within weeks Jenkinson became obsessed by Brianna and began plotting her murder with Ratcliffe.
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