Boy and girl guilty of ‘frenzied and ferocious’ murder of Brianna Ghey

Intelligent, “high functioning” and coming from normal backgrounds, the trial heard the pair had a fascination for violence, torture and murder and had a “thirst for killing”.

Two teenagers have been found guilty of the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey (Family handout/Warrington Police)

A boy and a girl have been found guilty by a jury of the “disturbing” murder of teenager Brianna Ghey, who died in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack.

Brianna, 16, was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back as she tried to fight off her attacker after being lured to Linear Park, Culcheth, a village near Warrington, Cheshire, on the afternoon of February 11.