Brianna Ghey was 16 when two classmates lured her to a park in Warrington under the pretext of getting drugs.
They stabbed her 28 times with a hunting knife that one of them had bought days earlier. In the other attacker’s room, they found a handwritten note with the plan for the crime, written eight days before they killed her. The court determined that sadism was the central motive, and transphobia a secondary one.
Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 15 years old at the time, were sentenced in Manchester to minimum prison terms of 22 and 20 years. But what no one expected came next: Esther Ghey, Brianna’s mother, met with Jenkinson’s mother and said she felt no hatred or anger. Today, in her book ‘Under A Pink Sky’, she maintains that social media were already destroying her daughter long before that night in the park.
