The hearing began with some startling new information: though she had pleaded not guilty at trial, Scarlett Jenkinson had now admitted to stabbing Brianna repeatedly - more times than she could remember.
It was "exciting", the now 16-year-old told a psychiatrist who visited her at the secure unit where she has been held since her arrest.
She said she did it because she thought Brianna was going to stop being her friend and this was a way they could always be together.
Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, told the court: "She said she enjoyed thinking about the plan to kill Brianna but her motivation for doing so was because she considered Brianna a friend and anticipated that Brianna was going to leave her and she wanted to kill her so that she would always be with her."
Jenkinson told a psychiatrist, Dr Richard Church, that she had planned to take one of Brianna's body parts as a "token" but she and the second teenager, Eddie Ratcliffe, were disturbed by a pair of dog walkers and had to run away.
That meant she could not carry out the last part of the meticulous murder plan she had written out in her neat handwriting, which involved her dragging Brianna's body away and hiding it in a pipe.
This was a major about-turn for Jenkinson, who first claimed that Brianna had "gone off with some lad from Manchester" and then in the witness box tried to blame Ratcliffe for the killing.
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