In her quest to stop the poison so freely available on the internet from damaging young minds, Esther Ghey has received support from the most unlikely source imaginable.
Not even a year has passed since the two teenagers who brutally murdered her 16-year-old daughter Brianna were jailed.
Esther Ghey refuses to be broken by grief, channelling unthinkable tragedy into a force for good – campaigning to stop the poison available on the internet from damaging young minds For, during the trial which led to Emma's daughter, Scarlett, and Eddie Ratcliffe being imprisoned for 22 years and 20 years respectively, it was shocking how much the pair were influenced by disturbing content online.
'I don't believe that someone who is so disturbed and obsessed with murder and torture would ever be able to be rehabilitated. 'Emma's not an evil person. She was just as brave, coming here to meet me, I know she must have been absolutely terrified. Esther says she and Emma – who was accompanied by her brother – talked about how their lives had been affected following Brianna's murder.
Yet for all Esther's evident grace, it's still astonishing for her to be in the same room as Emma, after what her daughter did. But before she leaves the house, Esther opens Brianna's bedroom door, and takes a moment to be with her daughter.'I open the door every morning, every single day my day starts that way.
'I'm keeping her memory alive in a positive way by doing what I'm doing, that's something that I find really comforting.' Throughout the troughs of her emotions, especially the dark days immediately after her daughter's death, Esther says she's relied on mindfulness to console her. It had already been a beneficial habit of hers for some eight years before Brianna's murder.
Esther, now an ambassador for MiSP, has seen mindfulness sessions in action at Birchwood High, really believes they can make a difference.While she prefers not to go into detail, she says: 'At that time, I dealt with it in a very different way, in a way that wasn't helpful to me or anybody else. She and Brianna had running battles over her daughter's 'addiction' to her mobile phone and the risks Esther thought she was taking by talking to strangers on the internet.
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