Mum says Brianna Ghey won’t get justice because she’ll never come home | UK News

The mum of Brianna Ghey has spoken out after spending her first Christmas without her daughter.

A boy and a girl, both aged 15, were found guilty for the teenager’s murder last month and are expected to be named at their sentencing on February 2.

Esther Ghey said of the verdict: ‘It was a relief. When that came through it was a relief.

‘I don’t like it when people say that justice has been done for Brianna. Brianna will never come home.

‘The only way there could be justice for her is to turn back time and have her back home.

‘It has been overwhelmingly sad, as well.

‘It’s a situation that nobody who was involved in that court case wanted to be a part of.’

She said she found listening to the trial ‘difficult’ but wanted to know ‘exactly’ what happened to her daughter.

Brianna, who was 16, was stabbed to death 28 times in broad daylight in Warrington, Cheshire, on February 11 last year.

Esther added: ‘I wanted it to go to trial; I was glad because I wanted the story to fully come out and I wanted the severity to come out.

‘Prior to the trial, the focus was on Brianna being trans, but after the trial the focus has been on the fact that she was a child who was brutally murdered.

‘People are contacting me now with a deeper understanding and deeper empathy.’

She said she supports the naming of the killers but still has ‘questions’ about how a teenager is able to access content on the dark web.

Esther said: ‘I have a lot of sympathy for their parents because they’ve had to sit there and listen to what their children have done.

‘I don’t think anyone can imagine that their kid can be capable of that.

‘I don’t carry any hate for [Brianna’s killers] though, because that will only hurt me.

‘I am concerned that both of them will be out [of prison] at some point, and I don’t think there’s a chance of rehabilitation for them from that.

‘I’m glad that they’re being named now because they would have been named when they turned 18 anyway.

‘The public has a right to know who they are.’

The family just spent a ‘quiet’ first Christmas without Brianna and allowed themselves time to heal, she said.

She described her daughter as ‘one of a kind’.

Esther added: ‘She would like to be remembered as she was – as the outgoing, fearless, funny, and beautiful girl that she was.

‘That’s how she would want to be remembered.’

Following the verdicts, Brianna’s dad Peter Spooner, said his daughter was ‘going to be a star’ and that she was a ‘beautiful girl to be proud of’.

Esther has since launched a campaign called ‘Peace in Mind’, which helps children process and deal with negative emotions in a healthy way, to prevent problems later on in life.

You can donate to the campaign at this link.

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