A "sadistic" killer's placement in a classroom alongside vulnerable trans teenager Brianna Ghey will be investigated at the inquest into her death, a court has heard.
Brianna, 16, was lured to a park by schoolmate Scarlett Jenkinson and her friend Eddie Ratcliffe, both 15 at the time, before being stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife on February 11 of last year.
Both killers were jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court earlier this year. Trial judge Mrs Justice Yip ruled the "frenzied" and "brutal" murder had elements of sadism, with a secondary motive being Brianna's trans identity. READ MORE: 'There are mushrooms growing from my skirting boards...
we can't live like this' Brianna had been a pupil at Birchwood High School, Warrington, where she was befriended by Jenkinson after she had transferred from Culcheth High School following an incident where pupils were given cannabis-laced sweets.
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