"The Brianna Ghey case should prompt parents to 'sharpen up' their internet awareness and police what their children are viewing online,
the detective who oversaw the investigation into her teenage killers has said.
Det Ch Supt Mike Evans,
head of crime at
Cheshire police,
said reading through their messages made him wonder:
'How do you know what your kids are doing when they are sat with the door shut in their bedrooms?'
He added:
'I can only reflect on myself as a parent, thinking, actually, how internet aware am I?
And do I know what my kids are looking at – inadvertently or advertently?
I think we could all use this as an opportunity to sharpen up'.
'Brianna’s murder should make everyone more vigilant about what children are viewing online',
he said.
'But I don’t for one minute think we’ve got kids across Merseyside and Cheshire sat there Googling how to kill people.
We’ve got to keep this in the context of what it is, which is horrendous.
It’s two warped individuals'.
Evans said there was one potential missed opportunity concerning an incident a few weeks before the killing,
when X told Y that she had poisoned Brianna with an overdose of red ibuprofen tablets."
Detective who oversaw investigation into teenage killers calls on parents to sharpen up internet awareness skills
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