How two middle-class children's serial killer obsession led to brutal murder

TWISTED 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe came from hard-working, middle-class families but were united in evil sharing a lust for torture and serial killers.

- Chris Riches

The pair first became friends aged 11 hanging around and chatting online before their friendship was cemented when she joined his school Birchwood High - where Brianna was a pupil.

But soon their chats and WhatsApp messages descended into "dark fantasies", as she initiated "genius" Ratcliffe into her fascination with death and murder.

Aged just 14, self-style satanist Jenkinson downloaded an app allowing her access to the Dark Web and "Red Rooms" where she enjoyed watching the torture and supposed murder of real people.

 

Then aged 15 she fantasised about killing her friends, before setting her target on Brianna telling Ratcliffe: "I want to stab her at least once even if she's dead jus coz it's fun lol." Then the pair cruelly acted out that very fantasy in cold blood and in broad daylight on a terrified, frightened victim who mistakenly believed they were her pals. Jenkinson lived with her siblings and loving parents in Warrington, Cheshire, but had autistic and ADHD traits. Her father is a tradesman and her mother works in education.