The affair caused great emotions. The trial of two teenagers accused of murdering 16-year-old British transgender teenager Brianna Ghey in northwest England earlier this year opened in Manchester on Monday. The two defendants, a girl and a boy, aged fifteen at the time and now sixteen, deny the murder. The trial against the two young people, whose names cannot be published for legal reasons, is expected to last three to four weeks.
Brianna Ghey was found stabbed to death on February 11 in a park in Culchet, not far from her town of Warrington, near Liverpool. Following the murder, thousands of people paid tribute to Brianna Ghey at numerous candlelight vigils organized in several cities across the country. Some attendees called for signs “Protecting Trans Youth” and “Justice for Brianna.” His funeral was celebrated in a ceremony decorated with pink, in which his coffin – in that color – was transported aboard a hearse drawn by two horses whose heads were decorated with pink feathers.
On the first day of the trial, the prosecution stated that the victim had been stabbed 28 times. She said the defendants showed an “interest” in “violence, torture and death” and “collaboratively planned and carried out their plan to kill Brianna Ghey.”
Representing the prosecution, Deanna Heer read a message from the accused teenager to her co-defendant in which she wrote: “If we can’t kill (a boy marked with the letter E) tomorrow, we can kill Brianna.” To which his co-defendant responds: “Yes, it will be easier and I want to see if he screams like a man or a girl.” » The trial is scheduled to resume on Tuesday.