Her murder by two other children was motivated in part by her transgender identity. As a society, we have questions to answer<\/p>\n
Brianna Ghey\u2019s father, Peter Spooner, had no wish<\/a> for his daughter\u2019s killers to be named in the media. He wanted them \u201cforgotten about and locked up\u201d, he said. \u201cThey\u2019re nothing.\u201d Frances Crook, former head of the Howard League for Penal Reform, commented<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter): \u201cAs soon as the children who killed Brianna Ghey are named they will be the entire prurient focus of the media. The victim is passed over,\u201d and that was borne out: immediately after the names dropped, images of the killers were all over social and mainstream media, described as the \u201cfaces of evil\u201d.<\/p>\n Explaining her decision to lift the reporting ban, Mrs Justice Amanda Yip said last year that \u201cthe shock generated by Brianna\u2019s murder and the circumstances of it has spread well beyond the local community, across the nation and indeed internationally\u201d. She accepted that to name the killers would cause distress for their families, but said the purpose of an anonymity order was not to protect the relatives of the convicted. But exactly what is the point of anonymity orders for under-18s? Why did a government review of the youth justice system recommend<\/a> lifelong anonymity for children in 2016 (it is currently lifted when they turn 18<\/a>)? And conversely, what social purpose does it now serve to know the identities of Ghey\u2019s killers? What conversation does it start, and what other conversations does it shut down?<\/p>\n Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Her murder by two other children was motivated in part by her transgender identity. As a society, we have questions to answer Brianna Ghey\u2019s father, Peter Spooner, had no wish for his daughter\u2019s killers to be named in the media. He wanted them \u201cforgotten about and locked up\u201d, he said. \u201cThey\u2019re nothing.\u201d Frances Crook, former … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}