02 February 2024 , 18:59
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Scarlett Jenkinson, one of the two people who brutally murdered Brianna Ghey, was moved from her previous school when she tried to poison a classmate.
Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 16, were convicted of murder after the transgender student was stabbed 28 times in a twisted attack in Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington in February last year. Today the pair were sentenced to life and given minimum terms of 22 and 20 years respectively, before parole.
Cheshire Constabulary was previously made aware of an incident at Culcheth High School in September 2022 involving an ill 13-year-old pupil. They are said to have been given cannabis gummies. Although no police action was taken, Jenkinson was moved to Birchwood Community High School where she later befriended Brianna. She murdered her, with Ratcliffe, months later.
Jenkinson was moved to Brianna Ghey's school (PA)Dr Amanda Holt, a criminologist at the University of Roehampton in London, told the BBC: "If you look at the history of children who engage in homicide, there is inevitably a history of increasing violence and some of that violence might involve previous attempts to commit homicide."
Jenkinson, from Warrington, and Ratcliffe, from Leigh, both 15 at the time of the murder, were known as bright students from good homes. His mother is a skiing instructor and his father runs businesses, while Jenkinson is the daughter of high school teachers. The twisted teens conjured up a hit list, including one boy described as a 'nonce', two seen as the girl's 'enemies', another deemed 'an easy kill', and another boy who was a rival love interest of the girl he liked.
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Richard Littler KC, citing a psychiatric report on Jenkinson, said the "box is well and truly ticked" for her on whether the crime had an element of sadism. Citing what Jenkinson had told the psychiatrist about the stabbing, he continued: "It made her feel excited and that excitement made her stab more times. She liked having complete power over someone and enjoyed the power she had over someone weaker.
Jenkinson's arrest by Cheshire Constabulary (PA)"She was thrilled by thoughts of violence, she was sometimes sexually aroused by it. She had increasing interest in violence, torture, murder, weapons, serial killers, fuelled and re-enforce by documentaries and dark web materials on these subjects."
What was evident in the trial was Jenkinson's fixation with the dark web, where from the age of 14, she immersed herself in graphic videos of people being tortured. And along the way, developed an obsession with serial killers. She paid attention to Dr Death Harold Shipman, the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, the Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer, referencing them in her journals.