Brianna Ghey’s mum Esther has been demanding change since the death of her transgender teen daughter was lured to her death in a Cheshire park in 2022
The mums of stabbing victims Brianna Ghey , Ava White and Rhamero West have joined forces to demand the government does more to end knife crime.
Brianna Ghey’s mum Esther has been calling for change since her transgender daughter was brutally lured to her death and stabbed by two other teenagers in 2022. The year before, 12-year-old Ava White was fatally stabbed in the neck at a Christmas Light switch on by a boy only three years older than her.
Ava’s death came just two months after Rhamero West, 16, was chased down and killed by a group of teens who passed the knife between each other like a relay baton. Now in an interview with ITV News all three mothers hope coming together will force the government to implement tougher punishments for those who carry knives.
Esther Ghey said: “Something needs to be done. It needs to change urgently. I feel it’s our job as well…even though we’ve gone through something so tragic, we do need to do this, we do need to push this. I’ve still got the hope that we can make a difference. And whether it’s the government that are making a difference or mums like us, I’ve got the hope that things will change. I’ve got to hope things will get better. Everything that we’re asking for, it needs to be done and we’ll stick together, and we’ll be stronger together.”
Brianna was murdered by two students at the same high school she attended in Warrington, Cheshire. The 16-year-old thought she was meeting her friends when Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, also both 16, stabbed her to death.
For Leaann’s daughter Ava, the night of her death should have been a time of celebration. She was stabbed by a boy she didn’t know over an argument on Snapchat in Liverpool in 2021. Since her death Leeann has campaigned to install bleeding control kits across Merseyside. But she wants to see 10 year prison sentences for anyone carrying a knife.
She added: “Kids are dying on our streets on a daily basis. The government needs to step up and do more. It needs to be more of a priority. There needs to be custodial sentences. That’s the only way that change is going to happen in my eyes. I want custodial sentences for carrying a knife. I think if you’re caught with a knife, it’s a straight ten years. Every single day, you open the paper, you read the news, there’s been another fatality… so I’d like to see tougher sentences.”
When Rhamero was stabbed to death, it had been his first day at college. His killers had chased him and his friends down in their car after an incident on the road. Rhamero’s mum Kelly Brown slammed the Tories for taking action on XL Bully dogs but not on knife crime.
She said: “I feel like they’re not taking it as seriously as they should be. We’ve discussed before, they can ban these XL bullies within three months. It’s taken so long to ban these knives for killing our kids. I feel let down. I feel like the government is not doing enough.”
