Brianna Ghey trial: Teens guilty

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the verdict in the trial of the murder of Brianna Ghey.

The 16 year old, who was transgender, was stabbed 28 times in a “ferocious” attack in a park in Cheshire. Girl X and boy Y, who can’t be named for legal reasons, were found guilty of murder after the jury deliberated for 4 hours and 40 minutes. Adam is joined by the BBC’s North of England correspondent Judith Moritz and BBC North West reporter Katie Barnfield to discuss the case. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham. To hear more on what led two 15-year-olds to execute their carefully crafted plan to kill a teenage in broad daylight? Listen to a File on 4 special on BBC Sounds which tells the story behind the brutal killing of Brianna Ghey. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h0l274

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, two teenagers who can't be named for legal reasons have been found guilty of murdering
0:10.8	the teenager Brianna Jai in February this year.
0:15.0	It's a news story that has received a lot of coverage and a lot of comment and there's probably
0:20.1	quite a few things that need to be cleared up as well and that's what we'll do on this episode of Newscast.
0:25.0	Newscast.
0:25.7	Newscast from the BBC.
0:27.4	Why can't people buy a house?
0:29.2	Look at their wages.
0:30.3	Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math?
0:32.2	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
0:36.6	The era of global warming has ended.
0:39.2	The era of global boiling has arrived.
0:41.6	It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
0:45.4	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
0:49.4	The Prime Minister is not under a desk. Hello, it's Adam in the studio.
0:55.0	When the 16-year-old transgender teenager Brianna Jai was found dead in a park in Warrington, in Cheshire in February. There were vigils all over the place because
1:07.1	her death struck a chord with lots of people, whether it was people from the trans community, whether it was people from the trans community,
1:13.8	whether it was people who'd followed her on Tik-talk
1:16.2	and watched her makeup tutorials.
1:18.3	Very quickly, the police arrested two then 15-year-old teenagers, a boy and a girl and today they were found guilty
1:27.7	unanimously by a jury of Brianna's murder. Now there was lots of evidence presented in the case some of it quite harrowing and
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