12/03/2024
The Daily Mirror reports that a vigil to mark the first anniversary of the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was held in her home town of Warrington at the weekend of 11th February. Hundreds of people, including members of Brianna's family, were present. Brianna's mother Esther told the crowd "I will be forever thankful that I was able to spend 16 years with Brianna, she taught me so much and gave me so much peace and love... If there was one piece of advice I could give to any parent, it would be to hold your kids tight and tell them that you love them." As soon as Esther finished speaking a two-minute silence was impeccably observed, during which time the crowd held up torches on phones. Since Brianna's death, Esther is now campaigning for under-16s to be blocked from accessing social media on smartphones and stronger parental controls to flag potentially harmful searches to parents, in the wake of the sentencing of her daughter’s killers.
