Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
2 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
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Crime & Law
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
A teenage girl who stabbed another to death in the street during a pre-planned fight over a boy has pleaded guilty to murder.
asserted
who → stab → murder
Chloe Watson Dransfield, 16, was taken by her boyfriend, Blake Dowling, 18, to the home of Kayla Smith, 18, who fatally stabbed her in the early hours of March 28.
asserted
who → take → March
Dowling’s mother said Smith was “jealous and obsessed” over her son’s relationship with Chloe.
asserted
Smith → say → Chloe
Smith had pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder.
asserted
Smith → plead → murder
However, on the second day of her trial on Thursday, she pleaded guilty to the more serious charge.
asserted
she → plead → charge
The trial will continue for her two co-defendants, Dowling and Archie Rycroft, 20, who followed Smith to the fight and is accused of recording it on a phone.
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who → continue → phone
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Dowling and Rycroft both deny murder and manslaughter.
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Dowling → read → murder
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.
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she → warn → custody
Prosecutors said that on the night of her death, Chloe was with Dowling at his mother’s house.
asserted
Chloe → say → house
When Smith found out she was there, the two girls argued over the phone and agreed to fight.
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girls → find → phone
Jurors heard that in the hours leading up to the fight, Smith repeatedly threatened to stab Chloe.
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Smith → hear → Chloe
A friend of Chloe’s who was on FaceTime with her that night said she heard Dowling answering his phone and heard Smith screaming: “Blake, I’m gonna smash your head in… you better not be with no girls…
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you → say → girls
When Chloe said that she was there, the witness heard Smith say: “I’m gonna stab you in your throat.”
asserted
I → say → throat
Chloe’s friend said that Smith had threatened to stab Chloe before, and that Chloe would laugh, and not take the threats seriously.
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Chloe → say → threats
Giving evidence on Thursday, the witness said that as Chloe was on the way to Smith’s house, she told her she was “off to get the fight that I’ve wanted for ages”.
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I → give → ages
Asked by Gill Batts KC, defending Dowling, what she thought the fight would entail, the witness said: “Just themselves, nothing else,” later clarifying she meant that there would be no weapons.
Dowling booked a taxi to take Chloe to Smith’s home in the Austhorpe area of Leeds.
CCTV and Ring doorbell footage shown in court showed Smith emerging from the summer house in her grandfather’s garden, where she lived, holding a knife.
She could be heard shouting: “Come on big girl”, and was then seen running back to the summer house with Rycroft after the stabbing.
uncertain
She → ask → stabbing
Chloe, who had been stabbed five times in the neck and back, bled to death.
asserted
who → stab → death
CCTV footage taken at 5.12am, about one minute after the stabbing, shows Smith and Rycroft with Smith’s grandfather Geoff Smith outside the summer house.
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footage → take → house
Mr Smith is heard saying “I’m ringing the police” and Smith replies: “You can’t ring the police, she’s dead.”
asserted
she → hear → police
Mr Smith called for an ambulance 37 minutes after the stabbing and was seen by a neighbour performing CPR on Chloe on the footpath.
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Smith → call → footpath
The court heard Chloe was taken by ambulance to hospital but was pronounced dead at 6.40am.
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Chloe → hear → 6.40am
When police arrested Smith and Rycroft, they were “laughing and joking” with two of their friends and using nitrous oxide in front of officers, prosecutor Mark McKone KC said.
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McKone → arrest → officers
Mr McKone said Dowling denied knowing that Chloe would be caused really serious harm, while Rycroft said he followed Smith out of curiosity and did not see that she had a knife.
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she → say → knife
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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