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Brianna Ghey trial verdict: Teenagers found guilty of murder

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Two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering schoolgirl Brianna Ghey in a frenzied killing that was weeks in the planning.

Brianna, 16, was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife by the two callous teens, who she believed to be her friends but who had been planning the horrifying attack in meticulous detail behind her back.

The pair, identified only as Girl X and Boy Y, both now aged 16 but 15 at the time, attempted to blame each other and were described as warped and obsessed with murder by detectives during a harrowing four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Jurors were told that the pair lured her to an area of woodland in Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington, Cheshire, in February.

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