What drove two seemingly respectable youths to commit such a shocking murder? The Mail’s exclusive YouTube documentary explores the backgrounds and personalities of Brianna Ghey’s teenage killers
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What drives a pair of seemingly respectable youths to kill under the most horrific of circumstances?
A new exclusive documentary, Brianna Ghey: Teen Murderers Unmasked, sees investigative journalist Tom Rawstorne delve into the murder that shocked the nation and what drove the killers, seemingly from loving and supportive homes, to commit such a heinous crime.
Brianna’s teenage killers made a sick ‘kill list’ of five children they planned to murder before launching their frenzied knife attack on the Cheshire schoolgirl, the Mail’s YouTube documentary reveals.
The twisted duo, identified for the first time today as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, now both 16, met Brianna at a popular beauty spot on February 11 last year and stabbed her a shocking 28 times.
Scarlett Jenkinson (left) and Eddie Ratcliffe (right) were named as the killers of Brianna Ghey
Brianna Gray was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in Cheshire on February 11 last year
Jenkinson and Ratcliffe, who were obsessed with murder and torture, were stripped of their anonymity by trial judge Mrs Justice Yip today ahead of their televised sentencing for 16-year-old Brianna’s brutal murder.
In a packed hearing at Manchester Crown Court today, it was revealed for the first time how Jenkinson admitted stabbing Brianna, who was transgender, ‘a number of times’ after blaming all the blows on his co-murderer Ratcliffe.
The documentary also sees criminal psychologist Kerry Daynes reveal how the teenagers’ visits to terrifying ‘red rooms’ on the Dark Web – the secret parts of the internet – likely ‘traumatised their psyches’ and spawned the sinister ‘murder plan’ they concocted together.
The Mail’s northern correspondent Liz Hull, who covers the trial of Jenkinson and Ratcliffe in the Mail podcast, The Trial: Brianna Ghey, explores their backgrounds, personalities and what led to them being bound forever by an overwhelming desire to kill.
Brianna Ghey: Teen Murderers Unmasked will be on Mail’s YouTube channel from 5 pm today