A boy and a girl have been found guilty of the "frenzied" murder of teenager Brianna Ghey.
30.11.2023 - 17:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dog walker told Brianna Ghey to 'hang in there' after he discovered her bloodied body in a park, her murder trial has heard. Andrew Vize was out for a walk with his wife Kathryn and their two dogs when they found her in Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington.
Brianna, 16, a transgender girl, had died after being stabbed 28 times in the head, neck, back and chest, a jury at Manchester Crown Court has been told. Two teenagers, both aged 16, known in press reports as Girl X and Boy Y, deny murder.
Girl X, from Culcheth, and Boy Y, from Leigh, cannot be named due to legal reasons. In a video interview which police conducted the day after the incident, played to jurors on the fourth day of the trial, Mr Vize said that in the park he saw a male and a female 'walking at quite a fast pace'.
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He said: "The man had a hood up and was partially obscuring his face with a hood. They weren't making eye contact and they were taking an odd route."
Mr Vize said: "I got closer and I saw some stuff. I thought it was balloons or something. As I got closer it looked like a dummy, because it was an odd position.
"I still didn't know if it was a person. I went up to her and she was sort of on her front.
"There was a lot of blood. I saw a lot of blood on her legs. I looked and I think, I wasn't sure if it was a breath or a sigh or something, but I thought I saw her chest move."
Mr Vize said his wife realised it was a person and called the police. He said he told the injured girl 'don't worry, we're phoning the police'. "I wasn't sure what to do," Mr Vize said.
"I knew it was serious, I knew
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