Brianna Ghey: Why teenagers who killed her can be named
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A ban on naming Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe has been lifted at their sentencing.
    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      It’s perhaps a little different than an american shooting a school.
      In one, you’ve got lots of victims, too many for one person to remember, but only one name for the killer, so it’s more likely to stick.
      In this case, I think people are going to remember the one victim. Similar to James Bulger.

      Edit: As a footnote, I had a read through the James Bulger wikipedia page after I wrote, and I really wish I hadn’t.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Children appearing in youth or crown courts in England and Wales - whether as a victim, witness or defendant - generally cannot be identified.

    Journalists covering the proceedings were banned from publishing their names and other identifying details, including photographs and the school they attended.

    After they were convicted of her murder, the teenagers’ legal teams opposed an application by the media to name them, citing possible welfare concerns.

    However Mrs Justice Yip said there was “a strong public interest in the full and unrestricted reporting of what is plainly an exceptional case”.

    Sir Richard said the correct decision had been made by Mrs Justice Yip in Brianna’s case because it was so shocking and exceptional.

    Mrs Maguire’s sister, Denise Courtney, said: "It’s important these people are named because they’ve committed such an evil, premeditated, heinous crime against a defenceless human being - they’ve taken a life.

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  • lemonflavoured@kbin.social
    6·
    10 months ago

    The girl got life with a minimum of 22 years (and a comment saying it would “take a lot of work” for her to be released), The boy got life with a minimum of 20.