This is the angelic schoolgirl whose life spiralled out of control before she went on to stab a transgender girl in a sickening revenge attack.
Summer Betts-Ramsey, age 20, received a sentence of four-and-a-half years in a Young Offender Institution along with an additional four years on probation this week. This was a result of her involvement in a violent attack where she repeatedly stabbed her victim in a car park outside a roller disco in Harrow, located in north west London.
Following the incident, Betts-Ramsey shared a video of the assault along with laughing emojis, proudly informing her friends, ‘I’m going to jail… bro I stabbed her 12 times.’ This act further aggravated the seriousness of her actions.
It is worth noting that Betts-Ramsey had a history of criminal behavior, with three previous convictions for a total of seven offenses, including robbery and four instances of battery. At the time of the assault, she was already subject to a community order, indicating a pattern of disregard for the law and the well-being of others.
A judge branded Betts-Ramsey a ‘dangerous offender’ who posed a risk to the public after she acted as ringleader in the hate crime.
Sentencing her at the Old Bailey Judge Philip Katz, KC, said of Betts-Ramsey: ‘Her gloating in the aftermath of the attack was shamelessly hateful and dehumanising.’
Photographs obtained by MailOnline showed how Betts-Ramsey had begun life as a cheerful child growing up with her family in north London.
Images show her smiling happily with a schoolfriend, dressed in their smart uniforms, while another show the smartly-dressed youngster with her hair tied up in a neat bun.
Summer Betts-Ramsey, 20, (pictured right as a child) was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in a Young Offender Institution plus another four years on licence his week after she repeatedly stabbed her victim during a frenzied attack in a car park
Photographs obtained by MailOnline showed how Betts-Ramsey had begun life as a cheerful child growing up with her family in north London
A judge branded Betts-Ramsey (pictured as an adult) a ‘dangerous offender’ who posed a risk to the public after she acted as ringleader in the hate crime
This is the ‘sickening’ moment that a teenage mob attacked and stabbed a transgender girl nine times for lying about her gender identity before she performed a sex act on a boy
The young girl – whose name reflected her bright and sunny nature – was described in court as ‘articulate’ and having ‘real potential’.
Yet years after her family snaps were taken, she is barely recognisable as she was pictured in a police mugshot after being arrested with five other teenagers who were hooded and masked when they launched into their orgy of violence.
Defence lawyers told the hearing that Betts-Ramsey – who was intoxicated with alcohol at the time of the attack – had been in and out of care after her life was marred by domestic violence and abuse starting from the age of around seven.
Her mother Linda, who insisted she had ‘nothing to hide’ over her daughter’s troubled upbringing, stood by the youngster as she began her term in a young offenders’ institution.
Speaking to a friend, Linda said: ‘I love my daughter and can’t bear to see what’s happened to her – she’s been treated worse than a murderer.
‘What has come out in court looks bad but there are two sides to every story. Everyone is looking at it from one point of view.
‘There was a hell of a lot that went on prior to this. There were a lot of threats.
‘The easiest way to describe it is that the youth of today deal with things in a totally different way to the way we did. It’s hard to understand.’
Linda declined to comment further when approached by MailOnline, but added: ‘She’s not a ringleader. You don’t know the whole truth.’
The court heard the 18-year-old victim, who cannot be named, was an aspiring model who told show she had been left traumatised by the assault and is now living in constant fear.
In her impact statement she said: ‘At times when I close my eyes, I replay the assault in my head and visualise the knife being used on me. I am unable to control this and I feel at times that this is taking over my life.
‘This incident has resulted in me being left with thick scars on and around my body. It saddens me every time I see them and I feel like I am the one living a life sentence due to them.
Images show her dressed in smart uniforms during her childhood Â
Defence lawyers told the hearing that Betts-Ramsey had been in and out of care after her life was marred by domestic violence and abuse starting from the age of around sevenÂ
Betts-Ramsey was sentenced to four and a half years in a young offenders’ institution plus another four years on licenceÂ
‘I am not living a normal life and I am not sure if my life would ever be the same again.
‘In the past I have experienced animosity towards me due to being transgender, but never thought that someone would have so much hatred for me and want to assault me in the way they did.’
The court heard the victim was lured into an ambush after she performed a sex act on a boy who she had lied to when he asked her whether she was transgender.
Believing she was going to meet up to socialise, the gang had instead secretly hatched a plot for violent revenge.
The masked gang of teenagers were lying in wait as she was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on.
During the brutal 45-second revenge attack, which was filmed on Snapchat, the victim was punched to the ground and kicked at least seven times by Betts-Ramsey, who was 19 at the time.
Then, while the victim lay helpless, Betts-Ramsey stabbed her up to14 times in the nose, thigh, hand, and buttocks.
Other teenagers rained down blows with ‘great excitement’, beating her with a pair of roller skates and boots before snatching her handbag and fleeing, leaving her in a pool of blood.
Betts-Ramsey is pictured during happier times as a child
Photos show her smiling and wearing smart clothes with her dressed up in a bunÂ
The teenager only survived the attack on February 10 last year after a passerby stopped Betts-Ramsey stamping on her head before calling for an ambulance.
The perpetrators were detained for a total of 13 years in a young offenders’ institution.
Judge Katz said the group were motivated ‘by a distorted version of revenge’, and described the planning of the attack on Snapchat as ‘poisonous’.
Betts-Ramsey was sentenced to four and a half years in a young offenders’ institution plus another four years on licence.
Three boys, Shiloh Hindes, Bradley Harris, and Camron Osei, all 18, were detained for three years in a young offenders’ institution.
A 17-year-old boy who cannot be named was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order. All five admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Betts-Ramsey also pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon at a previous hearing.
A sixth defendant, a 17-year-old girl who cannot be named, will be sentenced at a later date after pleading guilty to robbery and possession of cannabis.
The court heard Harris plotted the attack because the victim had denied being trans when she performed a sex act on him days earlier. He had recorded the encounter, and a friend who saw the clip told him she had lied.
Harris then challenged the victim about her gender, threatening her at knifepoint and warning: ‘I’ll stab you if you lie.’
Before sentencing was carried out defence barrister Greg Unwin outlined Betts-Ramsey’s dysfunctional childhood in mitigation of the offences.
He told the court: ‘She is an articulate young woman able to reflect on her past. She is a young woman with real potential.’
Mr Unwin said that when interviewed by a psychiatrist, Betts-Ramsey had ‘expressed remorse for her actions, particularly the knife and the transphobic slurs’.
He said: ‘She admitted she was using transphobic language and it was shameful.
‘She is a person who has been in and out of care with complex needs and a history of abuse from an early age in childhood, particularly the age of nine.
‘Her record shows she has been known to children’s services for some time and went into care after abuse was reported to the police.
‘Since her teenage years she has been in and out of care.
‘From about 2011 there are reports of domestic violence and referrals referring to a young person who was easily influenced.
‘Against that complex background she understood she has a lot of work to do.
‘Despite the horrendous gloating in the messages on the night of the attack since her arrest and over the last 11 months we say nothing Betts-Ramsey has said in her defence statement or interview amounts to saying this act was in anyway justified or provoked.
‘We say that Ms Betts-Ramsey considering how appalling the conduct was has come some considerable way in her period in custody taking the time to comprehend the severity of the suffering she put the victim through.
‘The pre-sentence report says she was fully cooperative and expressed remorse – she feels awful about what she has done.’
Mr Unwin said Betts-Ramsey may be suffering ADHD and reported having ‘flashbacks and intense emotions and was identified as high scoring for Borderline Personality Disorder associated with trauma and abuse’.
After the hearing Detective Inspector Nicola Hannant, who led the investigation, said: ‘This was a horrendous and violent assault on a young woman, motivated by the fact she is transgender.
‘Summer Betts-Ramsey and Bradley Harris orchestrated the attack, with Betts-Ramsey repeatedly stabbing the victim, and the other members of the group punching, kicking and stamping on her head.
‘The 17-year-old girl used the opportunity to rob the victim while she lay defenceless and being attacked on the ground.
‘This was a pre-meditated attack where the young people involved lured the victim to the venue, concealed their identities by wearing face coverings, discussed using weapons and, after the attack, made efforts to get rid of any evidence.
‘It was incredibly fortunate for all those involved that the injuries caused were not more serious, as the level of violence used could have quite easily have resulted in the death of the victim.
‘I hope that today’s sentence allows the victim, who has demonstrated extreme bravery throughout the investigation, to start moving forward with her life.’
