Two teenagers found guilty of transgender schoolgirl Brianna Ghey's murder
A boy and girl have been found guilty of the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey in a park near Warrington.
Brianna, 16, was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back after being lured by the pair to Linear Park, Culcheth, in Cheshire, on the afternoon of February 11.
Her killers, identified only as girl X and boy Y, both now aged 16 but 15 at the time of the killing, had denied murder and each blamed the other for the fatal stabbing, described as "horrific" by detectives.
Intelligent, "high functioning" and coming from normal backgrounds, the trial heard the pair had a fascination for violence, torture and murder and had planned the killing for weeks, detailed in a handwritten murder plan and
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