Trans teen Brianna Ghey ‘targeted by torture-obsessed teens who gave her pills to kill her – before fatal stabbing’

TWO teens "preoccupied with violence" gave a transgender girl pills in a plot to kill her just days before she was knifed to death, a court heard.

Brianna Ghey was allegedly stabbed 28 times in Linear Park in Warrington by a girl known as X and boy known as Y.

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The 16-year-old transgender schoolgirl had been lured to the park by the teens, who were both 15 at the time of the killing.

Manchester Crown Court was told they had shared chilling text messages leading up to Brianna's death about Y's crush on X's pal, A.

But as the conversations continued, they soon became "preoccupied with violence, torture and death", prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said.

The teens allegedly "encouraged one another to to think about how they would actually carry out a killing".

This included how they "planned together to kill Brianna in just the way that she was in fact killed", jurors heard.

The pair also discussed killing child M, who the male defendant feared his crush was getting too close to.

Y said: "You seem pretty ok with me killing him”. X replied, “idc [I don’t care] if you kill him. I can do my best to help you too”.

X also allegedly discussed how she had a "really sharp blade, the same one that Sweeney Todd uses".

The court heard she added: "If we kill M can I keep some things, a couple of teeth and an eye.

“Idk [I don’t know] how I would cut eye out though and get teeth out. And torture before killing”.

She also allegedly sent Y a video which referred to killing, saying she "love[d] watching torture vids".

Jurors heard X had also messaged about Brianna and told how she was "obsessed" with the teen but didn't have feelings for them.

She later allegedly messaged Y about a plot to kill Brianna using medication, the prosecutor said.

X messaged him 19 days before the schoolgirl was killed, telling him she had given Brianna [painkillers] that "should have been enough to kill her".

Ms Heer said: "Until this point in the chronology, although the defendants had spoken to one another about wanting to torture or kill, there is no evidence that they in fact had acted upon their words.

"However, when Girl X told Boy Y that she had given Brianna an overdose of tablets, it seems that she wasn’t making it up.

"Brianna was indeed on holiday on the 18th of January as Girl X said, but by the 23rd of January she had returned home. Her mother, Esther Ghey, recalls an occasion during that week when Brianna was sick.

"She recalls that Brianna was in real pain and thought that she was going to die."

X and Y had compiled a list of four people they wanted to kill in addition to Brianna, jurors heard.

The court was told they had first suggested targeting a teen boy, named as E, with Y saying he had been searching online for a rope to use to make it look like a suicide.

X then allegedly told him: “Nah, just stab him. Slit his throat and stab his back”.

She later added: "If we can’t get Boy E tomorrow we can kill Brianna.”

Jurors heard Y agreed to the plan, saying he wanted to see if "it will scream like a man or a girl".

The prosecutor said X then told him: "Lets stab her. Original Boy E plan. Back and throat”.

The horror unfolded on February 11 this year on a "dreary winter's day" in Culcheth Linear Park, Ms Heer said.

Kathyrn Vize and her husband Andrew were walking their dogs on a path when they spotted a man and woman on the path in front of them.

The court was told Mr Vize noticed the male had bent down "as if to tend to a dog" before he ran off with his female companion.

They then discovered the man had actually been bending over the "bloodied body of a young woman lying face down in the mud".

Paramedics were scrambled to the scene but sadly Brianna couldn't be saved and was declared dead at the scene.

Jurors were told the catalogue of horror injuries she suffered - including catastrophic blood loss when she was knifed in the back and chest.

X and Y also allegedly penetrated Brianna's throat and lungs with the blade.

One stab wound reached a grim depth of 11cm and sliced through the teen's heart.

The court was told "many" of the stab wounds damaged Brianna's bones and would have required "considerable force".

Ms Heer said there was "no doubt she was the victim of a sustained and violent assault".

She added: "There is no dispute that the male and female seen running away from Brianna’s body were these two defendants, X and Y. Nor is there any dispute that in the days and weeks leading up to that day, they had discussed killing her.

"Indeed, it is accepted that Brianna Ghey was killed with a knife that belonged to Y, a knife which he told X he would have with him that day and which was sharp enough to kill her.

"But each defendant denies that they are guilty of murder. Each denies that they participated in her killing at all. Each blames the other.

"The prosecution case is that, whoever delivered the fatal blows, both defendants are equally guilty. Acting together, they planned and executed their plan to kill her."

X and Y, who legally can't be named, both deny murder.

The trial continues.

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