LIVE: Note detailing 'plan to kill Brianna Ghey' found in defendant's bedroom, prosecution says - latest trial updates

The trial of two teenagers accused of murdering Brianna Ghey continues today. Brianna, 16, a transgender girl, died after being stabbed 28 times in a park near Warrington, jurors at Manchester Crown Court have heard.

The two defendants, both aged 16, known in press reports as Girl X and Boy Y, deny murder. Girl X, from Culcheth, and Boy Y, from Leigh, cannot be named for legal reasons.

The court heard yesterday that Girl X had told Boy Y that she was 'obsessed' with Brianna. They had discussed killing Brianna previously, and had allegedly planned to kill Brianna two weeks earlier but she had not turned up.

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The defendants had also discussed killing other children, the jury heard. Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC claimed that the pair, both aged 16, had a 'preoccupation' with 'violence, torture and death'.

Brianna was found by dog walkers in Linear Park in Culcheth near Warrington, at about 3pm on Saturday February 11. Her bloodied body was found face down in some mud, having been stabbed 28 times to the head, neck, back and chest.

The trial is due to continue today.

Follow the latest updates from our reporter in court below.

The judge says that one of the 12 members of the jury has difficulties serving on the case and has been discharged. They have now been replaced with one of the two replacement jurors.

The case is being adjourned for lunch, to return at 2pm.

Ms Heer continues: "In this case, the prosecution says that the evidence clearly demonstrates