Leeds teenager admits murdering 16-year-old after dispute over boyfriend

Kayla Smith, 18, has pleaded guilty to murdering Chloe Dransfield, 16, after an escalating dispute over a boyfriend. Newly released CCTV shows Smith pleading with her grandfather not to call the police shortly after the stabbing, while the boyfriend tells her, “You just killed her.” Smith faces life in custody when sentenced.

Dransfield was stabbed five times in the back and neck at Smith’s grandfather’s home in Austhorpe, Leeds, on 28 March; one wound punctured her lung. She died in hospital at 6.40am, despite neighbours attempting CPR. The court heard Smith had threatened to stab Dransfield repeatedly in messages, and that the pair had never met before the attack. Blake Dowling, 18, and Archie Rycroft, 20, deny charges of manslaughter and murder.