When Esther Ghey received a text from her 16-year-old daughter Brianna in February 2023, saying she was on the bus by herself for the first time, Esther replied to let her know how proud she was. But the message never showed any blue ticks, and Esther has no idea if her daughter ever saw it. Soon after, Brianna, who was transgender, was brutally murdered in a Warrington park by her friend Scarlett Jenkinson, then 15, and a boy she had never met, Eddie Ratcliffe, also 15.
Now, two years on, Esther is turning her trauma into something transformative, campaigning for real change to reduce violent crime in schools and improve the mental wellbeing of young people. In the powerful and moving documentary Brianna: A Mother’s Story, Esther, 38, says, ‘I…
