A girl accused of killing teenager Brianna Ghey had a “murder plan” and notes on serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Harold Shipman in her bedroom, a court heard.
The note, written eight days before Brianna was knifed 28 times in a park, detailed how she could be lured to her death and stabbed, the prosecution said yesterday.
Two 16-year-olds, known as Girl X and Boy Y, deny murdering trans teenager Brianna on February 11.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said a week before Brianna, 16, died, X sent Y a picture of a handwritten note headed: “Saturday 11th February 2023. Victim: Brianna Ghey.” The note, found in X’s bedroom, suggested: “Meet 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. Go to the pipe/ tunnel area.
“I say code word to Y. He stabs her in the back as I stab her in the stomach. Y drags the body into the area. We both cover up the area with logs etc.”
Ms Heer told Manchester Crown Court: “It is clearly, the prosecution say, a plan to kill Brianna Ghey.”
The prosecutor said X and Y, who cannot be named because of their ages, were arrested a day after Brianna was attacked at Culcheth Linear Park, near Warrington, Cheshire. It came after X’s mother rang police when the girl said she and Y had been with Brianna on the day she died. But she claimed Brianna left them to meet a 17-year-old boy from Manchester.
Ms Heer said police who searched X’s bedroom found handwritten notes including the one about Brianna and another which said: “Give them alcohol with sleeping pills, slit throat, dismember body, place pieces in bin bags.”
There were also notes about serial killers including Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez and Harold Shipman, the court heard.
The court heard police found trainers and a jacket with Brianna’s bloodstains on them in Y’s bedroom. A 13cm-blade hunting knife with blood matching Brianna’s DNA was also found in his wardrobe.
The jury was told Brianna, who was born a boy but lived as a girl, had left her house in Warrington and boarded a bus to Culcheth. She later sent her mother a text message, which said: “I’m on the bus by myself, I’m scared.”
Ms Heer said Brianna, X and Y met just before 2pm and walked to the park. At 3.13pm, a 999 call was made by witness Kathryn Vize, saying somebody had been assaulted and she had seen the attackers run away.
Brianna was pronounced dead at 4.02pm from multiple stab wounds, the court heard.
Ms Heer said X and Y walked away from the park and were spotted on dashcam footage before separating and going home.
She said they exchanged phone messages shortly after 11pm in which X asked Y: “Do you have anxiety about getting caught?” When Y replied “probably”, X said: “You’re not going to get caught don’t worry. Police are s***e here.”
Y told police X stabbed Brianna, but he panicked when he got the victim’s blood on his hands as he checked on her, and fled the park.
Ms Heer said: “The evidence clearly demonstrates the defendants acted together to bring about Brianna’s death and that they intended to kill her.”
The trial continues.
