Jury convicts boy and girl in England of murdering transgender teenager in frenzied knife attack

By PAN PYLAS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A boy and a girl have been found guilty of murdering a transgender teenager during a frenzied knife attack in northwestern England earlier this year. Sixteen-year-old Brianna Ghey was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back in the town of Warrington on Feb. 11. The convicted pair, identified only as girl X and boy Y, are 16 now but were 15 at the time. They had denied killing Ghey and each blamed the other for the daylight knife attack. A jury of seven men and five women convicted the two following a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. Jurors deliberated for just four hours and 40 minutes.