A teenage girl was stabbed to death by another girl in a row over a boy with whom they had both been in a relationship, a court has heard.
Chloe Watson Dransfield, 16, was found with stab wounds to her neck and back on Kennerleigh Avenue in Austhorpe, Leeds, on the morning of Saturday 28 March and died in hospital a short time later.
Kayla Smith, 18, Archie Rycroft, 20, and Blake Dowling, 18, from Leeds, have all denied her murder, a trial at Leeds Crown Court was told.
Smith has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over Chloe’s death, having admitted to inflicting the stab wounds, although she said she did not intend to kill or cause serious injury. The other defendants have denied the same charge.
Opening the case on Wednesday, prosecutor Mark McKone KC said Dowling had been in a relationship with both Chloe and Smith and “knew of the bad feeling between the two females”.
Dowling had been with Chloe prior to her death and also had a telephone conversation with Smith, who was at her granddad’s house in Cross Gates with Rycroft.
