Brianna Ghey was enveloped in darkness, inquest told

The inquest opened at Cheshire Coroner’s Court in Warrington earlier.

It heard Jenkinson was moved from Culcheth High School to Birchwood High School in a “managed transfer” because of her behaviour.

Coroner Jacqueline Devonish said one of the issues the inquest will deal with is whether it could have been reasonably foreseen that Brianna was placed at risk by being in the same inclusion room at the school as Jenkinson.

Brianna’s father, Peter Spooner, told the hearing he wanted to know how both schools had dealt with the transfer and which staff at Birchwood knew about Jenkinson’s background.

The inquest also heard about the mental health problems Brianna had before she was killed.

In a statement read to the court, her mother, Esther Ghey, described how Brianna was hyperactive when she was growing up, before she began living as a girl.