The heartbroken parents of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey today paid tribute to their 'beautiful' and 'fearless' daughter after a torture-obsessed boy and girl were found guilty of savagely knifing her to death.
Brianna was just 16 when she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife at Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington, Cheshire, on February 11, in a barbaric onslaught that appalled Britain.
Her killers, two teens identified as Girl X and Boy Y, were both 15 when the schoolgirl was slaughtered and had plotted to use the 13cm blade to slit her throat before dismembering her body.
Today, Brianna's heartbroken mother paid tribute to her 'funny, witty and fearless' daughter and slammed her killers for not showing 'an ounce of remorse'.
Speaking outside court, Esther Ghey said: 'Brianna was larger than life. She was funny, witty and fearless. We miss Brianna so much and our house feels empty without her laughter.
'To know how scared my usually fearless child must have been when she was alone in that park with someone that she called her friend will haunt me forever.'
Brianna's father, Peter Spooner, said he was 'so proud' of his daughter and would never stop loving her.
Brianna Grey was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife on February 11, a court has been toldToday, Brianna's heartbroken mother Esther paid tribute to her 'funny, witty and fearless' daughter and slammed her killers for not showing 'an ounce of remorse'
Brianna's father, Peter Spooner, said he was 'so proud' of his daughter and would never stop loving her
Following today's guilty verdicts, the Crown Prosecution Service released an image of the knife Brianna on her final bus journey to Culcheth before she was found stabbed to death in Linear ParkHe added: 'It is impossible to put into words how the murder of my child has affected me. I never stopped loving her and I never will. When she was little I remember the faces she would pull to make me laugh.
'The cheeky giggle, the funny dances are engraved in my memory. I knew she was going to be a star and the amount of support she received from the followers on TikTok proved this. I was so proud of what she could do.'
Speaking of her daughter's killers Esther Ghey said: 'Prior to the trial I had moments where I felt sorry for the defendants because they had ruined their own lives as well as ours.
'But now, knowing the true nature and seeing neither display an ounce of remorse for what they have done to Brianna, I have lost all
sympathy that I may have previously had for them. And
bokep jav I am glad that they will spend many years in prison and away from society.'