Brianna's unlawful killing 'could not have been foreseen'

BRIANNA Ghey was unlawfully killed by a classmate and her friend but their schools and local authority staff could not have foreseen her murder, a coroner has ruled.

- Pat Hurst

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 a park near Warrington, Cheshire, in February last year.

Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 15 at the time, were later jailed for life for the "sadistic" murder of the transgender teenager.

Brianna was a pupil at Warrington's Birchwood High School where she was befriended by Jenkinson, who had transferred from Culcheth High after she had "spiked" a younger pupil with cannabis-laced sweets.

Jenkinson became obsessed with Brianna and began plotting her murder with Ratcliffe, a Culcheth pupil.