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Brianna Ghey’s Mum - The Full Interview

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In an emotional interview the mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey says she is "open" to speaking to the mother of one of her daughter's killers.

Esther Ghey has also called for the government to stop children having access to social media apps on smartphones, calling the internet the "Wild West".

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.6

Hi everyone, it's Laura again.

0:07.1

I'm on the train home, which is why it's noisy.

0:09.5

So sorry about that.

0:11.1

But after our interview today with Esther Jai, Brianna's mom,

0:15.0

we've had so many responses and emails and messages from you

0:18.0

that we thought we should share the interview we played on BBC 1

0:22.0

this morning here in Europe feeds because so many of

0:25.4

you've got in touch to tell us how moved you were by Esther Jay or even to

0:30.0

share your experiences of your concerns about kids and mobile phones and the dangers lurking

0:36.0

on the internet.

0:37.0

It's such a tricky challenge for politicians and regulators.

0:41.7

Technology can be such a positive, but it can provide such a danger too.

0:46.1

It'll be fascinating in the next few days to see how Esther Gai's campaign takes off.

0:51.1

Here she is in our interview that we taped yesterday on Saturday

0:55.0

and you can hear us discuss it in the previous episode of newscast

0:58.0

with me, Patty and Chris.

1:00.0

She was absolutely full of life.

1:02.0

She was such a character. She was absolutely full of life. She was such a character. She was really, really outgoing.

1:07.6

And she just, she loved attention. She loved to be on Tik-Toc. She loved having all of the likes that she used to receive and she was just

1:15.7

she was like life and soul of the party early and everybody knew Brianna and anybody who ever met Brianna would never forget her.

1:26.0

You were in court then to hear the sentencing on Friday of the two teenagers who took

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