BRIANNA GHEY
BRIANNA GHEY WAS STABBED TO DEATH ON 11 FEBRUARY 2023 BY TWO 15-YEAR-OLD TEENS OBSESSED WITH TORTURE AND VIOLENCE. HER BRUTAL KILLING SHOCKED A NATION
The Thelwall Viaduct is a steel structure on the M6 consisting of two bridges both well over 4,000 feet long. It carries vehicles across the mud-brown River Mersey and grey Manchester Ship Canal. From the viaduct, you can see the large sprawl of a Cheshire town come into view. For much of the 19th century and until the mid-20th century, Warrington was a place of industry – wire, beer, mining, chemicals, car parts. Today it has shed nearly all vestiges of its industrial past; long gone are the factories and wastelands that once pockmarked whole areas. Housing developments now flourish where once the worker sweated and toiled. There remains only a few signs of what once was – the metallic towers of the now-closed Unilever chemical plant and the endless number of haulage trucks rattling along the main roads night and day, going to and from the many distribution centres on the town’s outskirts.
Dominating Warrington’s skyline is the 281-foot spire (one of the largest in England) atop the Grade II-listed, Gothic Revival St. Elphin’s Parish Church. It rises up to the sky like a direct beacon to God. Here, on a freezing cold and rainy afternoon, Wednesday 15 March 2023, a white, horse-drawn glass carriage with pink plumes clip-clopped over Victorian cobbled stones through a set of large arched iron gates. Several black Mercedes limousines followed. Cheshire police had cornered off streets surrounding the church to allow the procession to travel unhindered by the often-
