28 November 2023 , 17:19
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A girl on trial for murdering a teenager in a knife attack had previously tried to kill her with ibuprofen, a jury has been told.
Girl X, who cannot be identified due to her age, is accused of stabbing 16-year-old Brianna Ghey to death, alongside a boy, known in the trial as Boy X.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court was told by prosecutor Deanna Heer that Brianna had returned from a holiday on January 23. Her mum Esther Ghey recalled an occasion during that week when her daughter was sick and in "real pain and thought that she was going to die".
Ms Heer told the court: "She recalls that Brianna vomited and that the vomit contained what she thought were grape skins but thinking back may well have been the remnants of red ibuprofen gel tablets."
The court heard Girl X told Boy Y how the tablets she gave Brianna "might slowly be killing her" as she was still ill with stomach pain. The court heard, Boy Y replied: "If it gets worse she’ll get taken to hospital but her liver should be done with it in a few days possibly by tomorrow."
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Brianna was just 16 (Cheshire Police)Boy Y allegedly suggested adding ibuprofen gel paste to a concoction of drugs, sending Girl X a screenshot of a product she could buy at Tesco. "He also suggested using lye, or sodium hydroxide, which he described as 'very dangerous'.
He suggested that Girl X could add it to Brianna’s drink, saying that she 'would have to drink it fast though since its acid'", the court heard. “Girl X said, 'I want something to pour into a drink that’s easy to get, odourless and kills her quickly'”.
The prosecutor said: “Boy Y’s web history showed that he spent the next hour and a half researching these toxic substances on the web, eventually telling Girl X, 'Unfortunately, I can’t find how fast it kills but I think it kills fast'."
She went on to add: "By the 26th of January 2023 they had compiled a list of four people they wanted to kill in addition to Brianna.”
The court had earlier heard Girl X had asked Boy Y "do you die from eating ibuprofen gel… I’ve got a plan if you do”. The prosecutor added: “Boy Y responded, 'It is dangerous yes but I’m not sure how much would be lethal'.
“Girl X explained, 'You know that girl I mentioned, Brianna, I’m still tryna kill her and the easiest way is pill overdose plus people already know she is depressed and s*** so nobody would get sus but for some reason she has a high tolerance like I gave her some today that should have been enough to kill her'," Ms Heer said.
“'But', Girl X went on, although Brianna had messaged to say she had felt bad and thrown up, 'she didn’t die'."
Ms Heer continued: “Until this point in the chronology, although the defendants had spoken to one another about wanting to torture or kill, there is no evidence that they in fact had acted upon their words. However, when Girl X told Boy Y that she had given Brianna an overdose of ibuprofen tablets, it seems that she wasn’t making it up."
The trial continues.