‘Torture-obsessed’ girl, 15, who was infatuated with serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jeffrey Dahmer ‘stabbed transgender schoolgirl to death in affluent English village’, court hears

Two “torture-obsessed” teenagers are on trial charged with the murder of a transgender schoolgirl who was stabbed to death in a “furious” attack in a wealthy English village.

One of the alleged attackers, 16-year-old Brianna Gay, a girl who was 15 at the time, was obsessed with American serial killers including “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez and Jeffrey Dahmer, jurors were told.

She exchanged a series of messages with her co-defendant, a boy also 15 at the time, in which they discussed killing four other teenagers before allegedly agreeing on a plan to lure Brianna to her death in a secluded park.

Brianna, described by her family as “strong and fearless”, became a social media star in England even before her shocking murder in February.

TikTok videos of her styling her hair or lip-syncing to pop songs have won her 30,000 followers.

Neither of the alleged killers – both now 16 – can be named under English law, which gives defendants the right to anonymity until they turn 18, although judges have the power to name and shame minors convicted of serious crimes. crimes.

Instead, they are called “Girl X” and “Boy Y”.

Friends since they were 11, the pair, who are said to have been fascinated by torture, violence and death, deny killing Brianna at Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington, Cheshire, on February 11.

Instead, “each blames the other”, prosecutor Dina Heer told Manchester Crown Court.

A handwritten alleged “murder plan” for Brianna was later found in the bedroom of Girl X, who the jury was told described herself as a “Satanist”.

Police also found notes they had made about serial killers, categorizing them and in some cases listing how many victims they had, the court heard.

A spider diagram with the words “good” and “evil” in the middle was also found, the jury was told.

During the first week of the trial, a series of WhatsApp messages exchanged by the pair in the weeks before the murder were heard, in which they discussed the murder of four other teenagers.

On January 23 – three weeks before the murder – Girl X told Boy Y that she knew all about Ramirez, who terrorized southern California in 1985, killing at least 13 people.

She wrote that she could talk about Ramirez for “about two hours, including quotes and dates,” the court heard.

Two days later she sent Boy Y what the court was told was a list of Ramirez’s “credentials” via Snapchat.

The pair exchanged messages that discussed attempts to kill Brianna by overdose, including hiding the drugs in a McDonald’s milkshake.

Girl X wrote that she gave Brianna pills that “should have been enough to kill her… but she didn’t.”

In response, Boy Y suggested other chemicals, which he said were “very dangerous.”

The jury was told that around the same time, Brianna’s mother, Esther, found her “screaming and crying” in her bedroom and saying: “I think I’m going to die.”

But she began to recover after vomiting, and traces of drugs may have been found in her vomit.

The jury heard the pair were focused on luring a teenager, who could only be identified as Boy E, to his death.

But he “smelled something was wrong” after Girl X created a fake Snapchat account and refused to date her.

On Jan. 26, she texted Boy Y, “If we can’t get (Boy E) tomorrow, we might kill Brianna.”

He replied, “Yes, it will be easier, and I want to see if it will scream like a man or like a girl.”

As they were allegedly planning a murder, Boy Y wrote: “Let’s say two words: one to prepare the knife and the other to stab.”

Girl X responded that she would look at him and cough to tell him it was time to “get the knife ready”, then she would say “gay”, indicating that he should stab Brianna.

In messages the day before Brianna was stabbed, she told the boy she was watching her “favorite movie,” Sweeney Todd, for the “9000th time.”

“He kills people with one of the sharpest blades in the world,” she wrote.

In the 2007 film, Johnny Depp plays a fictional serial killer and “demon barber of Fleet Street” in Victorian London.

That same night, Girl X asked Boy Y what kind of knife he would bring when they met Brianna, to which Boy Y replied, “The hunting knife I showed you in person and on the phone.”

A dog walker found Brianna’s bloody body face down in the mud just after 3.10pm on February 11 and saw the boy and girl running away, the court heard.

Police and paramedics rushed to the park, but Brianna was stabbed 28 times in a “sustained and brutal attack” and died at the scene.

Doorbell and CCTV footage shows Brianna leaving the house that day and catching a bus to Culcheth, where she is met by Girl X and Boy Y before they all go to the park.

Further footage shows Girl X and Boy Y leaving together before heading to their respective homes.

Following her arrest, notes were also found in her bedroom relating to American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, as well as Harold Shipman, a British doctor convicted of murdering 15 patients but believed to have killed as many as 250 others.

Other notes mentioned John Wayne Gacy, “The Killer Clown,” including the note: “Serial killer, 33 victims, victims raped.”

The following note lists a number of facts about serial killers and their characteristics, including “hedonistic,” “mutilation,” “sexually predatory behavior,” and “can be outwardly charming.”

The court found that Brianna was stabbed 28 times in the “violent” attack, suffering injuries “consistent” with Boy Y’s 4-inch (12 cm) hunting knives.

He was found with traces of Brianna’s blood in his bedroom after his arrest the following evening.

However, in a series of police interviews given to the jury this week, Boy Y denied bringing it to the park on the day of Brianna’s murder.

Recounting what allegedly happened, Boy Y said he turned away to urinate on a tree and looked back to see Girl X had stabbed her “at least three times.”

Girl X then “decided to run,” he added, causing him to “panic” and they both walked back to their homes, leaving Brianna bleeding on the ground.

When detectives asked why he didn’t call the police, Boy Y said he was “not sure” if Girl X would “try to stalk me or something.”

In Girl X’s police interview, she said the couple had been with Brianna in the park and that she looked “really happy” but then she suddenly “rushed away” to meet “some guy” from Manchester who was picking her up in his car.

According to her, she only learned about Brianna’s death from a message from a friend when she returned home from the park.

“I started crying,” she said.

— I immediately went to my mother.

Recounting the last time she saw Brianna, Girl X told police: “We sat around for a while and relaxed. She looked at her phone.

“She said, ‘I need to go and meet this guy.’

“She said he was 17 and coming from Manchester to pick her up.

“She started attacking me, saying, ‘Stop questioning me.’

“And she just left.” She left me.

She said Boy Y, who had not met Brianna before, was “very, very quiet around her, didn’t seem to like Brianna for some reason.”

“He seemed very cold and didn’t talk much,” she added.

The jury has already heard all of the couple’s interviews with police, but neither has yet to testify in court.

The pathologist who carried out the autopsy told the court that Brianna suffered stab wounds that would have required “considerable force” to inflict.

Richard Pratt, defending Girl X, asked Dr Alison Armor if it was “fair to say they also required significant force?”

“It takes a certain amount of strength, I accept that,” she replied.

An expert told the court that stains of “airborne” blood found on the clothes Boy Y was wearing that day contradicted his claim that he turned around and saw Girl X stab Brianna.

No blood stains were found on Girl X’s clothes, although when questioned by Boy Y’s lawyer, the expert admitted that the blood stains could have disappeared after washing the clothes.

The jury was told that the prosecution did not have to prove which of them had the knife, and that if they were satisfied that both were “in some way intentionally involved in the murder”, they were both guilty of murder.

Boy Y, originally from Leigh, Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with autism after his arrest, the jury was told, as well as “high levels of social anxiety”.

Girl X, from Warrington, was found to have “autistic and ADHD traits”.

None of them have yet given evidence in their defense.

The trial continues.