The murdered transgender Teen Brianna Ghey helps to paint the hair of her murderer in a previously unseen social media video.
The hair-raising film was recorded just a few weeks before Scarlett Jenkinson attracted the 16-year-old schoolgirl to a park, where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in a sadistic and crazy attack.
Together with the 15-year-old complicit Eddie Ratcliffe, Jenkinson was convicted of the murder of Brianna in December 2023, after a three-week process at the Manchester Crown Court.
The process heard that Jenkinson, also 15, became friends and was seized with Brianna after she was placed in her class at Birchwood High School, in Warrington, in Warrington in October 2022.
Jenkinson had a fascination for serial killers and looked at real murder and torture on the Dark Web when she and Ratcliffe set out in a series of disturbing Snapchat messages to kill Brianna.
In the video, which will be screened for the first time on a new ITV documentary tomorrow evening, Jenkinson reads the instructions of the hair dye while he was on the floor in a supermarket toilet.
Brianna, wears trademark pink arches in her hair, pink lipstick and long pink false nails, films while she helps wash the bright red dye in the brown hair of her murderer over the sink before she turns around in front of the camera.
Only weeks later, on 11 February 2023, Jenkinson got her new friend, who suffered from fear, to get on a bus for the first time and meet her in Culcheth, a village near Warrington.
After the brutal murder of Brianna Ghey (left), her mother told the police: “I knew this would happen”
Eddie Ratcliffe (left) and Scarlett Jenkinson (right) were convicted of the murder of Brianna Ghey in what has been described as an 'exceptionally brutal' crime
Brianna, wears trademark pink arches in her hair, pink lipstick and long pink false nails, films while she helps wash the bright red dye in the brown hair of her murderer over the sink before they turn around for the camera
In the video, which will be screened for the first time tomorrow evening on a new ITV documentary, Jenkinson reads the instructions of the hair dye while he is on the floor in a supermarket toilet
Shortly thereafter they stuck and Ratcliffe Brianna death in a wooded area in nearby Culcheth Linear Park. A little later her body was found by a few that ran their dog, who saw Jenkinson and Ratcliffe run away over a nearby field.
Other images, also screened for the first time as part of the program, show the murderous couple that bottles of pop and sandwich 'meal deals' in Sainsbury's in Sainsbury's briefly purchased shortly before he met Brianna and launches the fatal attack.
The 75 -minute film, entitled Brianna: A Mother's Story, celebrates the life of the schoolgirl and contains interviews with her mother, Esther, 38, stepfather, Wes Powell, 31 and several of her good friends.
Mrs. Ghey, a former food technologist, tells the program that what Jenkinson did with Brianna, who had thousands of followers on Tiktok, was “the worst possible betrayal.”
She said, “I didn't want to believe it was Scarlett because she was a friend who clearly trusted Brianna and I trusted, I think it is the worst possible betrayal.”
Photos of Brianna as a baby and a cute, ginger -haired toddler before switching, 14 years old, are also included in the documentary.
It investigates her death and issues related to online security, including Mrs. Ghey's campaigns to ban social media for less than 16 years and to introduce Mindfulness teachers in schools, which she established after the murder of her daughter.
The hair-raising film was recorded just a few weeks before Scarlett Jenkinson attracted the 16-year-old schoolgirl to a park, where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in a sadistic and crazy attack
Brianna Ghey was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in Cheshire in February 2023
Brianna's mother says she can never visit Culcheth Linear Park, where Brianna was murdered, and refused the municipality's request for a memorial bank where she died
She and Brianna have argued about her use of mobile phones and interaction with strangers online before her death. Brianna was also briefly admitted to the hospital with an eating disorder that, Mrs. Ghey, later discovered, was probably worse by pro-anorexia sites that she saw online.
Mrs. Ghey has previously described social media as a 'Cess Pit' and wants the government to do more to protect children, and says that the new online security law is not going far enough.
She also travels to New York for the film, where she meets a father whose 17-year-old daughter was also stabbed to death by a teenage friend who sent her threatening messages on social media.
Mr Powell tells the documentary: “We spent a lot of time worrying about whom Brianna spoke online and the strangers that she could possibly meet (but) the fact that Brianna's friend was involved is incredible and devastating.”
Jenkinson and Ratcliffe were imprisoned for life and ordered to serve at least 22 and 20 years respectively, before they are eligible for conditional release in February last year. (2024)
Judge of the trial, Mrs. Justice Yip, Jenkinson '(you) knew (Brianna) was vulnerable and needed friendship and you abused that.'
She concluded that, while Jenkinson was motivated by her “deep desire” to kill, Ratcliffe was partly driven by hostility to Brianna because she was transgender. “
“You both participated in a brutal and planned murder that was sadistic in nature and a secondary motivation was hostility to Brianna because of her transgender identity,” the judge said.
Brianna: The story of a mother will be broadcast tomorrow at 9 p.m., Thursday 27 March, on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV player.
