Posted on 12/20/2023 4:47:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
A boy and a girl were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a transgender teenager in northwest England earlier this year, in a frenzied knife attack that was described as “horrific” by police.
Brianna Ghey, 16, was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back in broad daylight after being lured to a park in the town of Warrington on Feb. 11.
The convicted pair, who are identified only as girl X and boy Y, are 16 now but were 15 at the time. They denied killing Ghey, and each blamed the other for the fatal stabbing. It is not known which one or if both wielded the knife. Neither had been in trouble with police before.
A jury of seven men and five women convicted the two following a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. The jurors deliberated for just four hours and 40 minutes of deliberations. …
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I can’t ascertain if the two now-convicts are Mahometan or not due to their identities being concealed.
Forget it Jake......it’s the AP.
“Ghey” is almost certainly not his/her real name.
Wondering if this article got the personal pronouns right(?). This could be a $100 million lawsuit!
My first thought was that this was just another everyday Muslim knife attack.
But the article says the suspects are blaming each other. If they were Muslim it would probably be the opposite. They would be proud of what they did, and would try to grab as much credit as possible.
According to other reports, his mother is also surnamed Ghey so it may be his real last name (Brianna is certainly not his real first name).
His father’s surname is Spooner.
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