Note detailing 'plan to kill' trans teen Brianna Ghey found in accused's home
A crumpled handwritten note allegedly detailing a "plan to kill" transgender teen Brianna Ghey is alleged to have been found at the house of one of her accused killers.
Police discovered the note in the bedroom of another teen girl who has been accused of her murder. The girl, identified only as Girl X, is said to have had the piece of paper in her bedroom, which was uncovered during a search more than a month after the 16-year-old's death.
Brianna, a transgender girl, was stabbed 28 times in a park near Warrington earlier this year before her body was found by dog walkers after 3pm on February 11, Manchester Crown Court has heard. Girl X and her co-defendent Boy Y both deny killing the teen.
The note claimed to have been sent from Girl X's phone to Boy Y on February 3. Officers found the 'crumpled' piece of paper on the floor during a search of Girl X's bedroom on March 17, jurors heard on the ninth day of the murder trial. The note was headed: "Saturday 11th February 2023. Victim: Brianna Ghey.", reports the Manchester Evening News.
This is the crumpled, handwritten note detailing the plan to kill Brianna (police handout)It read: "Meet Boy Y at wooden posts 1pm. Walk down to library…bus stop. Wait until Brianna gets off bus then the 3 of us walk to Linear Park.
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"Go to the pipe/tunnel area. I say code word to Boy Y. He stabs her in the back as I stab her in the stomach. Boy Y drags the body into the area. We both cover up the area with logs etc."
During her opening speech to the jury last week, prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said of the note: "It is clearly, the prosecution say, a plan to kill Brianna Ghey." During the same search on March 17, officers found a note found in a draw headlined 'plan'.
It continued: "Give them alcohol with sleeping pills.
Brianna in a family photo (Cheshire Police)"Slit throat. I kill her. Dismember body. Place pieces in bin bags, bury bags 7ft underground, bones including.
“Get her to go to Linear park, go to the hidden spot near the bridge I usually go to. Someone jumps out and restrains her (plan B). I kill her."
Police also recovered a tablet computer and a black notebook during the search.
Jurors heard that on one page the word 'anarchy' was seen, and on another there was a list of 'what is right and wrong'. On another there was a 'spider diagram' with 'good and 'evil' in the middle.
Leading off from the diagram were words including 'forgiveness, justice, morality, good, suffering, evil, sin and free will', the court heard. On another there were the words 'Valentine's gifts' and on another the words 'revision HW'.
"Homework, perhaps," prosecutor Cheryl Mottram said. Officers also discovered another notebook on Girl X's bed, jurors were told.
On one page there were the words 'types of serial killers', with a list under the heading. Words underneath included 'organised and disorganised', 'mass murder', 'psychotic', 'organised crime' and 'copy cat'. On another page were the words 'films', and 'faves'.
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Brianna boarding a bus to Culceth hours before she was stabbed to death (Cheshire Police)While on another page was the heading Jeffrey Dahmer, and a 'list of characteristics'. There were also notes about 'John Wayne Gacy', the 'killer clown'.
Another page featured the note 'potential threats' and 'people that need to go'. There was another page with Boy Y's name with a 'list of qualities or attributes'.
Words underneath included 'trustworthy, funny, sociopath, good sense of humour, very very smart, genius level and not sociable'. Officers also found a handwritten note found in a black handbag in a 'cubby hole'.
It read: "Friday 11 November, attitudes to forgiveness." Jurors were told that it contained two names, including Gee Walker.
"Forgives her son Anthony’s killer," the note read. "Julie Nicholson, who could not forgive the terrorists who killed her daughter Jenny," it continued.
Officers also found three handwritten notes found on the floor. One read 'serial killer facts', with a 'list of facts relating to serial killers' including 'killing themselves in police custody can be a final act of control', 'hedonism' and 'power and control orientated'.
Other notes in the list include 'cruelty to animals', 'bed wetting past age of five', 'USA has the most serial killers', 'lack of empathy for others' and 'can be superficially charming'. Another note read 'Dr Harold Frederick Shipman, aka Dr Death', with the words 'classification, serial killer'.
There was also a note in relation to 'Richard Ramirez, or the Night Stalker', the jury was told.
The trial continues.
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