Moment Brianna Ghey’s evil killers inform police pack of lies in unseen interview after brutally stabbing trans schoolgirl to demise in frenzied looking knife assault
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Brianna Ghey‘s teenage killers told barefaced lies to the police after they were arrested for brutally stabbing the transgender schoolgirl with a hunting knife.
In previously unseen footage, a stoic Scarlett Jenkinson can be seen responding to officers’ questions with repeat lies as she denies all knowledge of the attack.
Her accomplice Eddie Ratcliffe, also 15, appears calm but blames Jenkinson for what happened.
The pair were later convicted of Brianna’s murder in December 2023, following a three-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.
It came after 16-year-old Brianna was sadistically knifed to death in a wooden area in Culcheth Linear Park.
Newly released police interviews show Jenkinson first question why she is a suspect as police turn up to make the arrest and then later claim she ‘didn’t even find out about it til after it happened’ and ‘it was on the news’.
She said: ‘I was with Brianna on the day it happened.’
The young killer then tried to claim Brianna had left her and Ratcliffe in the park, saying there was an argument.
Newly released police interviews show Jenkinson (pictured) first question why she is a suspect as police turn up to make the arrest and then later claim she ‘didn’t even find out about it ’til after it happened’ and ‘it was on the news’
Eddie Ratcliffe (pictured) said: ‘We walked to the forest. I turned away to go to the toilet on a tree. And then I turned back around, I saw Scarlett stabbing Brianna, at least three times’
Brianna Ghey was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in Cheshire in February 2023
She added: ‘I texted her like “Why have you just ditched me and Eddie?”. She just didn’t respond.’
The shocking footage is set to air in a new ITV documentary tonight.
Video clips also show Ratcliffe saying ‘I can explain everything’ in a calm voice as police turn up to arrest him before trying to blame Jenkinson in a subsequent police interview.
He said: ‘We walked to the forest. I turned away to go to the toilet on a tree. And then I turned back around, I saw Scarlett stabbing Brianna, at least three times.
‘Stabbing her over and over.’ Ratcliffe then goes on to act out the process of someone being stabbed.
Elsewhere in the ITV documentary, testimony is given by Brianna’s mother who describes the teen as ‘lonely’ and ‘isolated’.
She says: ‘I was so concerned as to who Brianna was speaking to online.’
Brianna’s mother also described her first meeting with the mother of Scarlett Jenkinson as ‘really emotional’.
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
Following the brutal murder of Brianna Ghey (left), her mother said to police: ‘I knew this was going to happen’
She added: ‘It was just something that we really wanted. I think since that meeting I speak to her every week.
‘I think it’s really been healing not just for me but for Emma as well.’
Yesterday, MailOnline revealed a chilling film showed Brianna help dye her killer’s hair just weeks before she was lured to the park where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife.
In the video, which will be screened for the first time on ITV tonight, Jenkinson is seen reading the instructions of the hair dye while sat on the floor in a supermarket toilet.
Brianna, wearing trademark pink bows in her hair, pink lipstick and long pink false nails, films as she helps wash the bright red dye into her killer’s brown hair over the sink, before turning to pose for the camera.
Just weeks later, on February 11 2023, Jenkinson persuaded her new friend, who suffered from anxiety, to get on a bus on her own for the first time and meet her in Culcheth, a village near to Warrington.
It comes after Jenkinson had befriended and become besotted with Brianna after she was placed in her class at Birchwood High School, in Warrington, in October 2022.
Soon after luring her to the park, Jenkinson and Ratcliffe stabbed Brianna to death in a wooded area in nearby Culcheth Linear Park. Her body was found moments later by a couple walking their dog, who saw Jenkinson and Ratcliffe running away across a nearby field.
Brianna, wearing trademark pink bows in her hair, pink lipstick and long pink false nails, films as she helps wash the bright red dye into her killer’s brown hair over the sink, before turning to pose for the camera
In the video, which will be screened for the first time on a new ITV documentary tomorrow night, Jenkinson is seen reading the instructions of the hair dye while sat on the floor in a supermarket toilet
Other footage, also due to be screened for the first time as part of the programme, shows the killer pair casually buying bottles of pop and sandwich “meal deals” in Sainsbury’s shortly before meeting Brianna and launching the fatal attack.
The 75-minute film, entitled Brianna: A Mother’s Story, celebrates the schoolgirl’s life and features interviews with her mother, Esther, 38, step-father, Wes Powell, 31, and several of her close friends.
Ms Ghey, a former food technologist, tells the programme what Jenkinson did to 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 Brianna obviously trusted and I trusted, I think it’s the worst possible betrayal.’
Pictures of Brianna as a baby and a cute, ginger-haired toddler before she transitioned, aged 14, are also included in the documentary.
It explores her death and issues around online safety, including Ms Ghey’s campaigns to ban social media for under 16s and to introduce mindfulness teachers into schools, which she established in the wake of her daughter’s murder.
She and Brianna argued about her mobile phone use and interaction with strangers online before her death. Brianna was also briefly hospitalised with an eating disorder which, Ms Ghey later discovered, was likely exacerbated by pro-anorexia sites she was viewing online.
Ms Ghey has previously described social media as a ‘cess pit’ and wants the Government to do more to protect children, saying the new Online Safety Act does not go far enough.
The chilling film was recorded just weeks before Scarlett Jenkinson lured the 16-year-old schoolgirl to a park, where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in a sadistic and frenzied attack
Brianna’s mother says she can never visit Culcheth Linear Park, where Brianna was killed by Jenkinson (pictured), and has refused the local council’s request for a memorial bench in the spot she died
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 who Brianna was talking to online and the strangers that she could potentially be meeting up with (but) the fact that Brianna’s friend was involved is unbelievable and devastating.’
Jenkinson and Ratcliffe were jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum 22 and 20 years, respectively, before being considered for parole in February last year (2024).
Trial judge, Mrs Justice Yip, told 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 driven ‘in part by hostility towards Brianna because she was transgender’.
‘You both took part in a brutal and planned murder which was sadistic in nature and a secondary motivation was hostility to Brianna because of her transgender identity’, the judge said.
Brianna: A Mother’s Story will air at 9pm tomorrow, Thursday March 27, on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player.
