THE mum of a pistillate who bragged astir stabbing a transgender teen 14 times insisted her girl is "not a ringleader".
Summer Betts-Ramsey, 20, repeatedly knifed her unfortunate successful a vicious ambush past twelvemonth successful a car parkland adjacent Harrow Leisure Centre, northbound west London.
She led Bradley Harris, Camron Osei, Shilou Hinds and 3 teens, who can't beryllium named for ineligible reasons, to lure the 18-year-old to a roller disco.
They laic successful hold for their unfortunate astatine a autobus halt each dressed successful achromatic with their hoods up and faces covered.
The teen was led to a adjacent car parkland and "immediately attacked".
The brave unfortunate has since fixed constabulary support to merchandise disturbing CCTV footage of the assault.
It showed the vile thugs brutally kicking, punching and stamping connected her portion spewing disgusting transphobic slurs.
The tribunal heard aft the attack, Betts-Ramsey posted footage of the battle with laughing emojis, boasting to friends: "I'm going jail… bro I stabbed her 12 times."
Bradley Harris, Camron Osei, and Shiloh Hindes, each 18, besides bragged astir the transgression online.
Their unfortunate was rushed to hospital at astir 7pm pursuing the incident.
She was saved by a passerby who intervened and called the exigency services.
But Betts-Ramsey's mum Linda claimed her girl is "not a ringleader".
According to the Mail a person of the mum said she told them: "I emotion my girl and can't carnivore to spot what's happened to her - she's been treated worse than a murderer.
"What has travel retired successful tribunal looks atrocious but determination are 2 sides to each story. Everyone is looking astatine it from 1 constituent of view.
"There was a hellhole of a batch that went connected anterior to this. There were a batch of threats."
Linda told her person it is "hard to understand" but claimed her daughter's procreation "deal with things successful a wholly antithetic way".
"She's not a ringleader. You don't cognize the full truth," she added.
The tribunal heard the unfortunate was targeted aft Harris learned she was transgender aft they had a intersexual encounter.
Unbeknownst to the victim, the enactment enactment had been recorded and shared connected Snapchat, Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told the court.
A person past contacted Harris to accidental the unfortunate was transgender and helium threatened to "stab her if she lied", the tribunal heard.
"Although she did not judge that Harris would usage the knife, she felt intimidated and admitted that she was transgender," Ms Heer added.
Across the adjacent fewer days Harris and Betts-Ramsey planned to "beat up" the unfortunate with the different defendants successful the Snapchat group.
'DANGEROUS OFFENDER'
Betts-Ramsey was described by a justice connected Thursday arsenic a "dangerous offender" aft she carried retired the "abhorrent" stabbing.
It emerged the 20-year-old had 3 erstwhile convictions for 7 offences including artillery and robbery.
Defence lawyers told the tribunal Betts-Ramsey had been raised successful and retired of care.
The tribunal heard constabulary had intervened successful her beingness from astir the property of 7 owed to home unit and abuse.
Betts-Ramsey was sentenced to 8 and a fractional years successful younker detention, 4 and fractional of which indispensable beryllium served successful custody.
Harris, Osei and Hindes were each sentenced to 3 years successful younker detention.
A 17-year-old boy, who cannot beryllium named, was fixed a younker rehabilitation order.
A 17-year-old girl, who besides cannot beryllium named, volition beryllium sentenced astatine a aboriginal day aft pleading blameworthy to robbery and possession of cannabis.
A 16-year-old lad received an 18-month supervision bid aft helium admitted grievous bodily harm with intent.
'THICK SCARS'
In an interaction connection work to the court, the unfortunate said: "I present find it hard to spot radical and it has profoundly affected my relationship circle.
"I consciousness that I person go repressed and americium ever successful fearfulness erstwhile leaving my house.
"My attendance astatine assemblage has dropped significantly, arsenic I americium perpetually successful fearfulness of being assaulted again.
“I recovered it highly hard to slumber the archetypal fewer weeks aft the incidental occurred and was perpetually having nightmares.
“At times erstwhile I adjacent my eyes, I replay the battle successful my caput and visualise the weapon being utilized connected me.
"I americium incapable to power this and I consciousness astatine times that this is taking implicit my life."
She added: "This incidental has resulted successful maine being near with heavy scars connected and astir my body.
"It saddens maine each clip I spot them and I consciousness similar I americium the 1 surviving a beingness condemnation owed to them.
“I americium not surviving a mean beingness and I americium not definite if my beingness would ever beryllium the aforesaid again.
"In the past I person experienced animosity towards maine owed to being transgender, but ne'er thought that idiosyncratic would person truthful overmuch hatred for maine and privation to battle maine successful the mode they did."