Brianna Ghey: Boy and girl in court charged with murder

A lad and girl, some aged 15, person appeared successful tribunal charged with murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey.

The transgender schoolgirl was recovered with fatal stab wounds connected a way successful Linear Park successful Culcheth, Cheshire, connected Saturday afternoon.

The boy, from Leigh, and the girl, from Warrington, appeared astatine Liverpool Crown Court and spoke lone to corroborate their sanction and age.

The brace were further remanded into younker detention.

They appeared connected abstracted videolinks and were some accompanied by an adult.

The girl's parents and the boy's parent were successful the nationalist assemblage for the abbreviated hearing.

The justice acceptable a provisional proceedings day for July.

On Wednesday evening hundreds of radical attended candlelit vigils successful cities including Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Lancaster and Leeds.

Cheshire Police initially said determination was nary grounds Brianna's sidesplitting was hate-related but connected Tuesday detectives said each lines of enquiry were "being explored", including hatred crime.

Officers, who had been fixed other clip to question the 2 teenagers, aboriginal charged them with murder.

Brianna's family, who are from Birchwood successful Warrington, described her arsenic "beautiful, witty and hilarious".

They said she was "strong, fearless and 1 of a kind" with a "larger-than-life character".