The CCTV told the grim tale.
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CCTV → tell → tale
Captured on video was 18-year-old Kayla Smith, sucking laughing gas, then stabbing love rival Chloe Dransfield, 16, to death in a shocking frenzy of bloodlust.
According to cops, the two blonde British teens were feuding over a boy both were seeing at the same time.
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both → capture → time
Smith has changed her plea from not guilty to guilty.
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Smith → change → plea
After changing her plea, the temperamental teen was told she “faces custody for life” when sentenced at a later date.
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she → change → date
Court heard that on March 28, 2026, tensions over the boy exploded when Smith hunted down Dransfield and slashed her five times in the back and neck outside the latter’s home in Leeds.
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Smith → hear → Leeds
Just 18 minutes before the attack, Smith texted a pal telling her: “I’m stabbing her.”
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I → texte → her
And before striking, Kayla Smith appeared to inhale laughing gas from a balloon.
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Smith → strike → balloon
Then she murdered her rival.
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she → murder → rival
CCTV captured Smith “striding” towards Dransfield, screaming “come on big girl.”
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Smith → capture → Dransfield
A third defendant, Archie Rycroft, 20, filmed the attack.
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defendant → film → attack
The trio then fled to Smith’s home.
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trio → flee → home
Prosecutors said that Smith was taken to the murder scene by the object of both girls’ desires, 18-year-old Blake Dowling.
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Smith → say → desires
He is accused of orchestrating the fight and knowing there would be violence.
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He → accuse → fight
“The prosecution say that this was a pre-planned fight.
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this → say → ?
The prosecution say that Kayla Smith was the person who inflicted all the blows, including the fatal blow with a knife,” prosecutor Mark McKone told the court.
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McKone → say → court
Blake knew of the bad feelings between the two females.
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Blake → know → females
In the hours leading up to the murder, the two girls exchanged increasingly vitriolic messages.
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girls → lead → messages
Smith boasted that she was better at sex and told the doomed Chloe: “I am going to batter you.
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I → boast → you
Watch what I will do to you.”
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I → watch → you
She also threatened to stab Chloe “in your throat.”
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She → threaten → throat
Chloe replied: “Try stabbing me in my throat, I’ll take it straight out your hand.”
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I → reply → hand
The killer also made a desperate plea to her teen Lothario: “Listen, I love you, Blake.
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I → make → you
I will never find someone that I love like you.
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I → find → you
CCTV showed Smith leaving her summer house at 5:10 a.m. wearing pyjamas and “striding quickly” with her right hand raised, and holding something shiny.
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hand → show → something
She lived with her grandfather and when he found out what happened, he said he was going to call cops.
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he → live → cops
His granddaughter reportedly replied: “You can’t ring the police, she’s dead.”
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she → reply → police
Granddad called for an ambulance 37 minutes after the stabbing.
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Granddad → call → stabbing
Cops say that the killer and Rycroft were “laughing and joking” with two of their pals and hammering nitrous oxide in front of the officers.
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killer → say → officers
Dowling told detectives he had no idea Chloe would come to serious harm.
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Chloe → tell → harm
Two boys deny manslaughter
Rycroft said he didn’t see that Smith was carrying a knife.
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Smith → deny → knife
While Smith admits the killing, she denied that murder was on her mind.
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murder → admit → mind
“Blake Dowling assisted and encouraged Kayla Smith to be violent to (Chloe) by taking (her) to the scene for the specific purpose of a fight,” prosecutors said, adding Rycroft “deliberately encouraged Kayla Smith to be violent by walking with (her) to the fight, and by trying to film (her) using violence and by providing support if needed”.
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Rycroft → assist → support
The two boys deny murder and manslaughter.
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boys → deny → murder
Their trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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