02 February 2024 , 11:25
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A teenage murderer says she wanted to stab transgender student Brianna Ghey because it was "fun".
The chilling "admissions" come after Scarlett Jenkinson, 16, admitted to knifing Brianna Ghey for the first time. Jenkinson shared her reasons for wanting to kill Brianna after she was seen by a psychiatrist following her murder conviction last December.
Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court that the 16-year-old was "excited" about the killing and had previously plotted to murder her with a tablet overdose. Ms Heer said: “She said effectively, she said that at the time of the killing she had in fact administered stab wounds herself. She had snatched the knife from Eddie’s hand and stabbed Brianna repeatedly.
“She said Eddie had thrown Brianna to the floor and stabbed her three or four times then he panicked and said he did not want to kill her, so she carried on and stabbed her a number of times. When asked how many, she answered, ‘A lot.’ She was satisfied and excited by what she was doing.”
Outwardly described by detectives as appearing to be “a normal kid from a normal family”, Jenkinson kept secret notes on her dark fantasies of death, torture, murder and serial killers in notebooks in her bedroom at the family home she shared with her parents - both teachers - and her three older brothers.
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Scarlett Jenkinson has been named by the judge todayDetectives say her “thirst for killing” grew over time, shared with Ratcliffe, neither blindly leading the other, both hand in hand down a path getting more extreme and more real, in a “cocoon world they alone inhabited”, their trial heard. Jenkinson told him she was a “satanist” and had a particular interest in serial killers Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker, and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer.
Unsuspecting Brianna entered this world when Jenkinson, by then 15, transferred to her school, Birchwood High, in November 2022. After striking up a conversation about eyeliner the two became friends, hanging out in the school inclusion unit and outside class on WhatsApp and Instagram.
Brianna, despite her appearance and having thousands of followers on TikTok, was in truth, vulnerable, nervous and anxious, with few friends and who rarely left home. Jenkinson and Ratcliffe drew up a “kill list” of five people they deemed worthy of murder over insignificant or minor dislikes.
Jenkinson shared her reasons for wanting to kill Brianna after she was seen by a psychiatrist (PA)But Brianna represented an easy kill. Jenkinson told Ratcliffe people knew Brianna was depressed and anxious and first tried to murder her with an overdose of tablets. When it failed Jenkinson then persuaded Brianna to leave home in Birchwood and meet her and Ratcliffe on a Saturday afternoon at Linear Park in Culcheth – just round the corner from her home.
She wanted to stab Brianna “jus coz its fun lol… I want to see the pure horror on her face and hear her scream”, she told Ratcliffe. Jenkinson told Brianna to get a single not a return bus ticket to Culcheth – and reminded Ratcliffe to bring his knife. They had already staked out a hidden spot in the woods, talked about a distraction tactic and how they would stab their victim. At some point Jenkinson took a final photo of Brianna, the friend she was about to murder.