Teen stabbed 14 times in transphobic attack ‘afraid to leave house’

A trans teenager has been left scared to leave her home after she was injured in a transphobic stabbing, planned on Snapchat by a group of her peers.

The teen, who was 18 at the time of the attack, was set upon by a gang of masked youths outside Harrow Leisure Centre in north west London last February. She was invited out by the group under the guise of going to a roller disco.

The teenagers turned on her after one person in the gang was told by a friend that she was trans.

During the attack, the victim was pinned to the floor, before being punched, kicked and stabbed 14 times. She suffered wounds to her thighs, buttocks and abdomen.

Appearing at the Old Bailey, in London, Summer Betts-Ramsey, 20, from Barnet,

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