{"id":863,"date":"2024-02-02T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/?p=863"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:10:08","slug":"murdered-teen-killers-named-as-scarlett-jenkinson-and-eddie-ratcliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/2024\/02\/02\/murdered-teen-killers-named-as-scarlett-jenkinson-and-eddie-ratcliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brianna Ghey’s killers named as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brianna Ghey, who was a transgender girl, was murdered in broad daylight in February last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was stabbed 28 times in a Cheshire park back in February 2023, leading to her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 11am on Friday 2nd February, the killers were identified and named, with both being 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The killers were arrested only 48 hours after the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brianna’s sister – Alisha Ghey, wrote a statement which was read by a prosecutor in court, discussing her struggles after her sister’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Brianna was always at home and I didn\u2019t know that she\u2019d left that day – I find being in my own home uncomfortable and lonely,” Ghey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her statement continues: “I now feel anxious, and struggle to trust new people that I meet because it was Brianna\u2019s friend who she trusted who ended her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No-one can ever make me feel better. The only thing that would is hearing her voice and laughter, and I must carry that pain for the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brianna Ghey, who was a transgender girl, was murdered in broad daylight in February last year. She was stabbed 28 times in a Cheshire park back in February 2023, leading to her death. At 11am on Friday 2nd February, the killers were identified and named, with both being 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}