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Movies re: LIFE For TWISTED Teen Killers Who Tortured & Murdered Timid Girl

Brianna Ghey: Murderers Will be Named as Judge Lifts Anonymity Order

The Two Teens Who Killed Brianna Were Secretly Preoccupied With Violence, Torture and Death’ and Fantasised About Killing Their Peers


The Guardian 23 DEC 2023





The teenage murderers of Brianna Ghey, currently known only as Girl X and Boy Y, have had their identities suppressed due to their age until now as a judge ruled they can be named.
In the dock of a Manchester courtroom, two 16-year-olds sit staring at their feet. The girl shakes with fear, the boy fidgets with a toy. Neither one looks at the other. Over four weeks they will each cast themselves as an innocent bystander, manipulated by a murderer.

They’ll blame each other, they’ll twist the truth, they’ll seem at times like frightened, disturbed children – at others like pure fantasists.

No matter how extensive the evidence of a calculated murder plot, no matter the paper trail they left lying around so casually (the unhinged texts, the hunting knife covered in blood, the handwritten plan to kill), boy Y and girl X will continue to deny murdering Brianna Ghey.

But as the pair now face life sentences for the brutal killing of an anxious young girl – an outsider, like both of them – the question remains: why?

It’s impossible to make sense of how a child could be moved to murder, and children boy Y and girl X both were.


As minors, they were given more leeway than an adult defendant would be in court, from shorter days to frequent breaks and fidget toys when they felt anxious.

But characterising boy Y and girl X (as they will be known for just six more weeks, before a judge names them for the first time in February) isn’t straightforward.


Should they be seen as vulnerable innocents whose young minds were corrupted by the horrific things they encountered while stumbling around the dark web? Were they complicated young people with untreated neurodiversity? (Both were diagnosed after their arrest with autism spectrum disorder.) Was she the brains and he the helpless accomplice acting on her whim?

Were they both violent and angry; were they of sound mind when they stabbed Brianna 28 times; were they just plain evil?







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