Brianna Ghey news - live: Scarlett Jenkinson’s family breaks silence as teen jailed with Eddie Ratcliffe

Jurors heard how the teenagers’ attempted to cover their tracks in the hours after the killing by creating what they assumed would be a subtle cover story.

Girl X messaged boy Y to say a “woman got stabbed” in the park, with him responding “Holy crap” despite later admitting to police they were present.

The following day, girl X messaged Brianna saying: “Girl, is everything okay? Some teenage girl got killed in Linear Park its on news everywhere.

“And why did you ditch us for some random man from Manchester. Like wtf.”

When Boy Y became nervous about the possibility of them being caught, Girl X reassured him and criticised the capabilities of the police.

The girl and boy who murdered teenager Brianna Ghey can be named for the first time as 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe.

The killers, both 15 at the time, had been found guilty of the “disturbing” plan to murder Brianna, 16, in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack.

Jenkinson, Brianna’s school friend and the daughter of teachers, who lives close to the park in Culcheth, was identified only as girl X during their trial last December at Manchester Crown Court.

Ratcliffe, from Leigh, whose mother is a skiing instructor and father runs his own businesses, had been identified only as boy Y.

Here are the first pictures of Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, who are facing life behind bars for the murder of Brianna Ghey.

Jenkinson, while aged 14, downloaded a TOR internet browser app, to watch videos of the torture and murder of real people, in “red rooms” on the “dark web”.

She developed an interest in serial killers, making notes on their methods, and admitted enjoying “dark fantasies” about killing and torture, the pair living in a secret world of warped interests in murder and cruelty, their trial heard.

They drew up a “kill list” of four others they intended to harm, until Brianna had the “misfortune” to be befriended by Jenkinson.

She had been asked to leave her school, Culcheth High, over an incident involving cannabis and joined Brianna’s school, Birchwood High, and quickly became “obsessed” with her.

Brianna had thousands of followers on TikTok, but in reality was a withdrawn, shy and anxious teenager who struggled with depression and rarely left her home.

Jenkinson told Ratcliffe she wanted to stab Brianna “jus coz its fun lol… I want to see the pure horror on her face and hear her scream”.

Reading his victim impact statement at Manchester Crown Court, Brianna’s father Peter Spooner described his daughter’s killers as “monsters” and “pure evil”.

He said: “Now my world has been torn apart. Justice may have been done but no amount of time in prison will be enough for these monsters.

“I cannot call them children because that makes them sound naive or vulnerable, which they are not - they are pure evil. Brianna was the vulnerable one.”

Esther Ghey spoke of how hard it was to come to terms with the fact that someone she believed to be her daughter Brianna’s friend was one of the people charged with her murder.

She told Manchester Crown Court: “Finding out that one of the people charged with her murder was someone we believed to be her friend, someone that we trusted, someone I was so happy that she had, knowing Brianna had been so lonely.

“Knowing this person wanted not only to cause her harm, but take the life of my previous child away.”

A teenage girl with a fascination for serial killers watched her favourite film Sweeney Todd as she and a teenage boy put the finishing touches to a meticulous plan for a brutal murder.

The following day, Scarlett Jenkinson lured transgender teenager Brianna Ghey to a park in Culcheth, near Warrington, having already tried and failed to kill the 16-year-old with an overdose of ibuprofen. In the frenzied 11 February attack, she and Eddie Ratcliffe stabbed Brianna 28 times with a hunting knife, the first victim from their “kill list” of at least five child targets.

The young killers were convicted of Brianna’s murder in December following a harrowing four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. Now, the pair have been unmasked by a judge ahead of their sentencing on Friday.

Read the full article from Tara Cobham here

Scarlett Jenkinson has admitted for the first time stabbing Brianna Ghey herself.

Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court the 16-year-old had been seen by a psychiatrist after she was convicted of murder last December and made “admissions”.

Ms Heer said: “She said effectively, she said that at the time of the killing she had in fact administered stab wounds herself.

“She had snatched the knife from Eddie’s hand and stabbed Brianna repeatedly.

“She said Eddie had thrown Brianna to the floor and stabbed her three or four times then he panicked and said he did not want to kill her, so she carried on and stabbed her a number of times.

“When asked how many, she answered, ‘A lot.’ She was satisfied and excited by what she was doing.”

Brianna’s mother has said her daughter “was not a fighter” but would have been “terrified” in her last moments and needed her mother there to protect her.

Esther Ghey told Manchester Crown Court: “All I could think about was Brianna was scared, she needed me to be there to protect her. Brianna wasn’t a fighter - she would’ve been terrified.”

She said she felt like her “heart had been ripped out” in the days after her daughter’s murder.

“I felt like someone had killed a part of me, like my heart had been ripped out - I’ve never felt such grief.”

Cheshire Constabulary have released images of Scarlett Jenkinson’s notebooks, which reveal her fascination with serial killers and torture.

Those that grabbed her curiosity include Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Dr Harold Shipman.