Brianna Ghey trial judge warns against threats towards killers’ families

The judge praised Esther Ghey, Brianna’s mother, for showing ‘remarkable fortitude and humanity’. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

The judge in the Brianna Ghey trial has warned those “tempted to direct vitriol or malice” towards the families of her teenage killers that such action would ignore the “express wishes” of the victim’s grieving mother.

Mrs Justice Yip said on Thursday she would lift the reporting restrictions preventing the pair from being named when they are sentenced on 2 February, saying there was a “strong public interest in full and unrestricted reporting of what is plainly an exceptional case”.