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Inside lives of Brianna Ghey killers who 'bonded over violence, torture and death'
WARNING, GRAPHIC DETAIL: The teen's murderers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were named publicly as they were jailed yesterday, as harrowing court details show how they became killers
Brianna Ghey’s ‘sadistic’ killers bonded over their fascination with violence, torture and death which gave them the confidence to share their darkest fantasies, experts say.
Scarlett Jenkinson - yesterday jailed for life alongside Eddie Ratcliffe - bought a specialist browser which enabled her to access the dark web and watch videos of real killings and extreme violence, a court heard.
Her favourite film was Sweeney Todd, a flick about a demon barber who slashes his victims’ throats with a knife, which she told Ratcliffe she had seen it “9,000 times”.
Jenkinson even wanted to keep part of Brianna's flesh as a token, and said she was "excited" as she stabbed the schoolgirl to death, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Brianna's body was found with 28 stab wounds in the head, neck, chest and back.
The jury in their murder trial heard the softly spoken youngster had a fascination with murder and torture since the age of 14 and she told friends she was into satanism and the occult.
In December 2022, she sent Ratcliffe a video for an advert for an underground site for people who like rape, torture and murder.
In text messages, Jenkinson spoke about keeping body parts, including the teeth and an eye of one person on their list, and said she wanted to taste human flesh.
She searched online for serial killers and handwritten notes about mass murderers, including Jeffrey Dahmner, Richard Ramirez and Harold Shipman, were found in her bedroom, the Mirror reports.
Psychologists call it a folie a deux when a shared madness drives two people to kill.
David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, believes plotting the murder through graphic messages on Snapchat and WhatsApp helped accelerate their plan to kill Brianna.
He told the Mail: “Within every folie a deux there is always a dominant and a subservient. In this case, it is Jenkinson that seemed to be the one in charge.
“I think Jenkinson's confession that she also stabbed Brianna - which she had initially denied, placing all the blame on Ratcliffe - is very significant because I think through that confession what we are beginning to see is the actual workings of the power relationship between the two and how unusually it's her, the woman, who's in charge.”
She met Ratcliffe aged 11 at Culcheth High School and became friends despite living in different towns.
Police found a notebook in Jenkinson’s bedroom in which she described Ratcliffe as “trustworthy”, “sociopath”, “socially awkward” and added: “Very, very smart. Genius level.”
Neighbours in her quiet residential street in Culcheth, an affluent village six miles north of Warrington, find it difficult to understand how the “sweet, kind” little girl they knew became a sadistic killer, the Mirror reports.
But one father of a child at the school told the Mail: “It was common knowledge from 2020 that she had a 'kill list' of kids she wanted to kill.
“My daughter came home and told me about it, but no one took it seriously. You won't find a single student that liked her.”
Jenkinson, who has three older brothers, lived with her parents in their neat, rented, semi-detached home, just a ten minute walk from where Brianna’s body was found.
Her mother Emma, 49, is a food, design and technology teacher at a high school. Dad Brian, 51, is a plasterer and also teaches the trade to college students and prison inmates.
Ratcliffe lived with his parents, Kyle and Alice, both 36, and his elder brother and younger sister, in a semi-detached former council house, five miles away in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
His dad runs a nearby fitness gym, teaching kick boxing, while mum is a fitness and ski instructor.
Ratcliffe was a talented kick boxer as a youngster and in a photo shown to the trial, he was pictured on the podium at the Amateur World Championships held in Jamaica in 2018 aged 11.
Daily Star Sunday
WARNING, GRAPHIC DETAIL: The teen's murderers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were named publicly as they were jailed yesterday, as harrowing court details show how they became killers
Brianna Ghey’s ‘sadistic’ killers bonded over their fascination with violence, torture and death which gave them the confidence to share their darkest fantasies, experts say.
Scarlett Jenkinson - yesterday jailed for life alongside Eddie Ratcliffe - bought a specialist browser which enabled her to access the dark web and watch videos of real killings and extreme violence, a court heard.
Her favourite film was Sweeney Todd, a flick about a demon barber who slashes his victims’ throats with a knife, which she told Ratcliffe she had seen it “9,000 times”.
Jenkinson even wanted to keep part of Brianna's flesh as a token, and said she was "excited" as she stabbed the schoolgirl to death, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Brianna's body was found with 28 stab wounds in the head, neck, chest and back.
The jury in their murder trial heard the softly spoken youngster had a fascination with murder and torture since the age of 14 and she told friends she was into satanism and the occult.
In December 2022, she sent Ratcliffe a video for an advert for an underground site for people who like rape, torture and murder.
In text messages, Jenkinson spoke about keeping body parts, including the teeth and an eye of one person on their list, and said she wanted to taste human flesh.
She searched online for serial killers and handwritten notes about mass murderers, including Jeffrey Dahmner, Richard Ramirez and Harold Shipman, were found in her bedroom, the Mirror reports.
Psychologists call it a folie a deux when a shared madness drives two people to kill.
David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, believes plotting the murder through graphic messages on Snapchat and WhatsApp helped accelerate their plan to kill Brianna.
He told the Mail: “Within every folie a deux there is always a dominant and a subservient. In this case, it is Jenkinson that seemed to be the one in charge.
“I think Jenkinson's confession that she also stabbed Brianna - which she had initially denied, placing all the blame on Ratcliffe - is very significant because I think through that confession what we are beginning to see is the actual workings of the power relationship between the two and how unusually it's her, the woman, who's in charge.”
She met Ratcliffe aged 11 at Culcheth High School and became friends despite living in different towns.
Police found a notebook in Jenkinson’s bedroom in which she described Ratcliffe as “trustworthy”, “sociopath”, “socially awkward” and added: “Very, very smart. Genius level.”
Neighbours in her quiet residential street in Culcheth, an affluent village six miles north of Warrington, find it difficult to understand how the “sweet, kind” little girl they knew became a sadistic killer, the Mirror reports.
But one father of a child at the school told the Mail: “It was common knowledge from 2020 that she had a 'kill list' of kids she wanted to kill.
“My daughter came home and told me about it, but no one took it seriously. You won't find a single student that liked her.”
Jenkinson, who has three older brothers, lived with her parents in their neat, rented, semi-detached home, just a ten minute walk from where Brianna’s body was found.
Her mother Emma, 49, is a food, design and technology teacher at a high school. Dad Brian, 51, is a plasterer and also teaches the trade to college students and prison inmates.
Ratcliffe lived with his parents, Kyle and Alice, both 36, and his elder brother and younger sister, in a semi-detached former council house, five miles away in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
His dad runs a nearby fitness gym, teaching kick boxing, while mum is a fitness and ski instructor.
Ratcliffe was a talented kick boxer as a youngster and in a photo shown to the trial, he was pictured on the podium at the Amateur World Championships held in Jamaica in 2018 aged 11.
Daily Star Sunday