Schools involved with one of Brianna Ghey’s killers could not have foreseen that she and her accomplice would have plotted to murder the teenager, a coroner has ruled.
Coroner Jacqueline Devonish found the transfer of Scarlet Jenkinson to Brianna’s school had been appropriately managed and had not contributed to the 16-year-old’s death.
She also said Brianna’s own health had not contributed to her death, except that it had made her vulnerable to manipulation by Jenkinson.
Jenkinson, along with Eddie Radcliffe, murdered Brianna in a park in Warrington on 11 February 2023.
The coroner said there had been no reason for anyone to suspect that the friendship between the two girls had been anything but genuine.
On 11 February 2023, Jenkinson lured Brianna to Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington, where she was waiting with Ratcliffe.
The pair, both 15, were convicted of Brianna’s murder and sentenced to life in prison earlier this year.
The inquest examined whether any of the bodies involved with Brianna or her killers could have foreseen that moving Jenkinson to the same school as Brianna would have led to the killing.
The coroner concluded there had been “no gaps” in the partnerships between the different schools and other agencies involved with the three teenagers.
And she found it could not have been “reasonably foreseen” that Jenkinson was mentally unstable to such an extent that she would kill.
Concluding the inquest at Warrington town hall, Ms Devonish said there was no need to issue a prevention of future deaths report to either school involved with Jenkinson’s education.
The coroner recorded a conclusion of unlawful killing.
