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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

Brianna Ghey’s mother remembers murdered daughter’s ‘fearlessness’ and praises ‘outstanding’ trans community

Esther Ghey

“Fearless” is the word those who knew Brianna Ghey reach for when paying tribute to the transgender teenager, as they try to grapple with her brutal killing.

The 16-year-old’s mother has celebrated her fearlessness in being “whoever she wanted to be”, while the schoolgirl’s headteacher, Emma Mills, described her as “loud and proud and confident in who she was”. A boy and a girl were this week convicted of her murder following the fatal knife attack in a Cheshire Park in February.

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