Teenage girl admits murdering love rival Chloe Watson Dransfield on second day of her trial
Video footage showed her carrying kitchen knife
A teenage girl has admitted murdering love rival Chloe Watson Dransfield less than two days into her trial.
Kayla Smith knifed the 16-year-old in the back during a pre-planned fight on a Leeds street earlier this year.
The 18-year-old denied murder and admitted manslaughter, which was not accepted by the Crown.
Opening the case at her trial yesterday, Mark McKone KC said Smith had threatened to stab Chloe in multiple messages to her and friends in the hours before the killing.
The pair had clashed because they had both been romantically involved with 18-year-old Blake Dowling.
When Chloe arrived by taxi on Kennerleigh Avenue, in Austhorpe, at around 5am on March 28, Smith emerged from the property carrying a knife with a 20cm blade.
When Chloe saw the blade, she tried to run but lost her shoes.
Smith chased her down and plunged the knife into her five times from behind. The fatal blow pierced her lung and the teenager bled to death.
The court was told an ambulance was not called until 37 minutes after the attack.
The judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh KC, said he would sentence Smith, of Kennerleigh Avenue, once the trial involving the other defendants was over.
He warned her that the only sentence he could pass for murder was life imprisonment, but that he would need to set the minimum term she must spend in custody.
The trial will continue for her two co-defendants, Dowling, who was with Chloe and is accused of encouraging the fight, and Archie Rycroft, 20, who was with Smith to the fight and is also accused of encouraging the violence.
Dowling and Rycroft both deny murder and manslaughter.
The trial continues.