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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

Brianna Ghey murder trial: accused spoke of research on serial killer, court told

Brianna Ghey
The teenagers deny murdering Brianna Ghey in Linear Park in Culcheth, near Warrington, on 11 February this year. Photograph: Supplied

A 16-year-old girl accused of murdering the teenager Brianna Ghey discussed killing her with a spiked McDonald’s milkshake and said she had been researching an American serial killer known as the “night stalker”, a court has heard.

The girl, referred to as X to protect her identity, told her co-defendant, a 16-year-old boy known as Y, that she could talk about Richard Ramirez for “like two hours”, a jury heard.

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