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• Boy and a girl who had fascination with violence and torture found guilty of murdering Brianna Ghey
• Brianna's death sparked an outpouring of grief, with thousands attending candle-lit vigils
• Brianna's mother has spoken to the BBC about how her daughter was "fearless to be whoever she wanted to be"
• Detectives who investigated the case explain how the teenage murderers tried to get away with the brutal killing

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Speaking outside court, Brianna's dad said his heart bleeds every day for his daughter who was "beautiful" and had "amazing talent".

Her life had been brutally taken away from her, he said.

Jurors heard the boy had gradually stopped speaking to anyone apart from his mother following his arrest and had been diagnosed with selective mutism, as well as autism spectrum disorder.

He typed out his evidence on a laptop, and it was read out by an intermediary, who was sitting beside him at a desk in a side room of at Manchester Crown Court.

The jury watched this via a videolink in the courtroom.

His words also appeared on a screen as they were typed out.

The court heard boy Y had passed eight GCSEs, was self-teaching himself A-levels and wanted to study microbiology at university.

To recap an emotional day at Manchester Crown Court, the family of Brianna Ghey have been speaking after two teenagers were found guilty of their daughter's murder.

The 16-year-old, who was transgender, was stabbed 28 times at Culcheth Linear Park in Cheshire on the afternoon of 11 February.

Jurors returned their verdict after a four-week trial where Brianna's mother Esther said she "lost all sympathy" with Brianna's killers who did not show "an ounce of remorse".

Her father Peter Spooner said Brianna was "a beautiful girl" whose life had been "brutally taken away".

• Esther Ghey has promised to continue her mental health fundraising campaigning in Brianna's memory
• Brianna's mother has spoken to the BBC about how her daughter was "fearless to be whoever she wanted to be"
• Detectives who investigated the case told the BBC how the teenage murderers tried to get away with the brutal killing
• Brianna's death sparked an outpouring of grief, with thousands attending candle-lit vigils

As well as vigils held across the country, all of the UK's LGBTQ+ radio stations held a minute's silence in memory of Brianna Ghey days after she was murdered.

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Hits Radio presenter Stephanie Hirst, who had national shows in the 2000s and returned to the airwaves in 2015 after undergoing gender reassignment, said her "community" had been "rocked" by Brianna's death.

"As a community, we must stand as one", she said, as the stations joined together for the silence on 17 February.

More than £100,000 was also raised on a crowdfunding page set up in her memory shortly after the attack. The money raised on a GoFundMe page went towards funeral costs, memorabilia and her family has turned Brianna’s bedroom into a "special place for us to remember her".

After the verdicts were returned and the jury discharged, the court hearing was reconvened and lawyers for both defendants asked for time for the preparation of psychologists' reports before they are sentenced.

Mrs Justice Yip agreed but added: "Frankly I don't expect them to make a huge difference to the outcome in sentencing but given their ages and the unusual circumstances of the case, I think it is right I have all the information available.

"I'm very conscious that no doubt the family of Brianna would want this case to be concluded as soon as possible."

Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, said Brianna's mother, Esther, would like to read her victim impact statement before the sentencing hearing, adding: "They understand the court wants the further assistance of medical reports."

A sentencing date is yet to be confirmed.

Speaking outside court, Esther Ghey said her daughter was "betrayed by someone she thought was her friend".

Trial judge Mrs Justice Yip says she will deal with an application by the media to be allowed to publish the names of the defendants at a hearing on Thursday morning.

Girl X and boy Y, who cannot be named due to their age, had blamed each other for the killing and denied murder.

Detectives say girl X was "really cruel" and had befriended Brianna and "essentially instigated this attack throughout".

Det Ch Supt Evans said: "She has been the planner behind it. She's been the person who was sending the text messages and ultimately lured Brianna out to her death and then murdered her in the coldest fashion."

Girl X posted a tribute to Brianna on Snapchat following her death.

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Girl X messaged Brianna's phone 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."

A plan to kill Brianna was found in girl X’s bedroom, the trial heard.

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The girl sent boy X a picture of a handwritten note headed: "Saturday 11th February 2023. Victim: Brianna Ghey."

The paper, found in girl X's bedroom after her arrest, said: "Meet boy Y at wooden posts 1pm. Walk down to library... bus stop.

"Wait until Brianna gets off bus then the 3 of us walk to linear park. Go to the pipe/tunnel area.

"I say code word to boy Y. He stabs her in the back as I stab her in the stomach. Boy Y drags the body into the area.

"We both cover up the area with logs etc."

Girl X and boy Y were discussing Brianna's murder for weeks, detailed in a handwritten "murder plan" and hundreds of phone messages found by detectives.

The trial heard in December last year, girl X messaged boy Y telling him she was "obsessed over someone" called Brianna but did not have feelings for the teenager.

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They spoke in messages about other people they wanted to kill and by 26 January had compiled a list of at least four people, as well as Brianna.

In another message, girl X said: "I want to stab her at least once even if she's dead jus coz its fun lol."

Girl X even sent a message to her victim's phone the day after her murder, saying, "Girl, where are you?", to set up her cover story of Brianna leaving them to go off with a man.

Girl X had tried to kill Brianna with an overdose weeks before her murder, the trial heard.

The prosecution said girl X and boy Y discussed an overdose in texts sent less than three weeks before the stabbing on 11 February.

The jury was told girl X texted boy Y that "nobody would get [suspicious]" as people "already know she is depressed".

"I gave her some today that should have been enough to kill her... but she didn't die," the message on 23 January read

The two then discussed an alternative of giving Brianna ibuprofen gel in a McDonald's milkshake and boy Y said the pills girl X gave Brianna "might be slowly killing her".

Brianna Ghey was a "brave young trans woman from Cheshire", who "deserved a future where trans individuals live securely, and with respect," a spokesperson for Manchester Pride says.

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The charity, which campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality, has released a statement to say her murder was a "sombre reminder to safeguard trans lives".

"Shocking crimes like these" show that "much more needs to be done to protect the trans community, enabling them to live free of fear," the spokesperson said.

The trial heard how the boy had referred to Brianna as "it" in Snapchat messages, but police said they did not build the case "around a transgender element".

Girl X and boy Y, both now aged 16 but 15 at the time, were intelligent, "high functioning" and came from normal backgrounds, the trial heard.

Neither had been in trouble with police before.

Brianna's father added she was "a beautiful girl to be proud of" but "her life has been brutally taken away and she has been deprived of the life she wanted to live".

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Brianna's father, Peter Spooner is visibly upset and has his head down as he says that it's "impossible to put into words" how Brianna's murder has affected him.

"When she was little I remember the faces she would pull to make me laugh," he says.

"Her cheeky giggle and funny dances are engraved in my memory."

He added: "I knew she was going to be a star, and the amount of support she received from her followers on TikTok proved this.

"She shared her TikTok videos with me all the time, and I'm so proud of what she could do."

Brianna's father Peter Spooner said it was "difficult to comprehend how some people can do these vile things don’t understand how cruel and heartbreaking their actions can be".

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"My heart bleeds every day for Brianna and this will never go away, and the amount of guilt I have is sometimes unbearable," he said.

"I will ensure her memory lives on in my thoughts and dreams."

Brianna's mum Esther vows to continue her work to improve mental health support for young people.

She launched a fundraising campaign in Brianna's memory to help schools teach mental wellbeing to pupils.

Ms Ghey joined forces with the Warrington Guardian,, external to set up the Peace in Mind campaign to create a lasting legacy for her daughter.

"We miss Brianna so much and our house feels empty without her," Brianna's mum Esther also said after girl X and boy Y were convicted of her murder.

"Brianna was larger than life.

"She was funny, witty and fearless.

"We miss Brianna so much and our house feels empty without her laughter.

"To know how scared my usually fearless child must have been when she was alone in that park with someone that she called her friend will haunt me forever."

Esther Ghey added she had lost all sympathy for her daughter's killers and is glad they will spend "many years in prison and away from society".

She told reporters there were times she felt "sorry" for defendants for ruining their own lives.

But she said she "lost sympathy" after they didn't display "an ounce of remorse".

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