POLICE have released a photo of the knife used to murder Brianna Ghey.
The Birchwood schoolgirl was brutally murdered in a “frenzied” stabbing in Culcheth Linear Park on the afternoon of February 11.
She died aged 16 after being stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back.
They cannot be named due to their age and were referred to during the trial only as girl X, from Warrington, and boy Y, from Leigh. Both denied murder.
Cheshire Police, following the conclusion of the trial, has now released a photo of the hunting knife used in the fatal attack.
The trial heard that Brianna’s DNA was found on the handle of the knife, along with DNA from its owner – boy Y.
The male defendant bought the knife while on holiday, jurors heard during the case.
The verdicts came after a four-week trial, and after four hours and 40 minutes of deliberations by a jury of seven men and five women.
Both defendants, who cannot be named due to their age, denied murdering the transgender Birchwood schoolgirl and blamed each other for Brianna’s death.
Neither defendant, sat next to a social worker each and surrounded by six security staff filling the dock, made any visible reaction as the jury foreman delivered the guilty verdicts.
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