In a Manchester courtroom on Friday, Mr Justice Yip sentenced two teenagers to life imprisonment for the “extremely brutal” murder of Brianna Gee in Warrington last year. Giving long sentences to Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, she said part of the motive for her murder was Brianna's transgender identity.
Editor-in-chief of the Guardian, North of England Helen Pitt, To tell Nosheen Iqbal About how she covered the case from the beginning and watched the evidence unfold. Scarlett Jenkinson, who was described by a judge as the “driving force” in the murder case, was sentenced for what the Crown Prosecution Service said was “one of the most disturbing cases” the lawyer had ever dealt with. , was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison.
Eddie Ratcliffe, a quiet and studious former champion kickboxer, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Brianna, an “openly proud” transgender girl who wanted to become a beauty therapist. Ta. Both men, both 16, were named for the first time before sentencing after a judge lifted a media ban.
Brianna's mother told the BBC over the weekend that she planned to meet Jenkinson's mother and tell her that she “doesn't blame her child for what he did.” She launched a campaign to push for laws that would allow under-16s to only have child-safe mobile phones with no access to social media and would automatically flag parents' phones for searches for harmful content. .
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