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Eddie Ratcliffe: 16-year-old who murdered Brianna Ghey ‘very, very smart’ and ‘a sociopath’

As jurors were told the horrific details of Brianna Ghey’s “frenzied” stabbing, her killer Eddie Ratcliffe sat in the dock doing puzzles in a Sudoku magazine on his knee.

Head down, pen in hand, he displayed not a flicker of emotion as the 999 call played, ruled too distressing to be made public, jurors hearing the breathless words of the horrified dog walker who first came across Brianna’s lifeless body.

Diagnosed with autism, selective mutism and a high level of social anxiety and aged 15 and a child at the time of the , he was

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