Moment teenager begs grandad ‘you can’t ring the police’ after killing love rival

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Chilling CCTV captured the moment a teenager pleaded with her grandad not to call 999 moments after she murdered a 16-year-old love rival, saying: ‘You can’t ring the police – she’s dead.’

Kayla Smith, 18, repeatedly stabbed Chloe Watson Dransfield in the street during an arranged fight over Blake Dowling, 18, who both girls had been in on-off relationships with.

Chloe and Dowling took a taxi to Smith’s grandad’s home in Austhorpe, Leeds, in the early hours of March 28 this year.

Footage played to jurors at the city’s crown court shows Smith ‘striding quickly’ from the summer house she was living in clutching a knife, followed by pal Archie Rycroft.

Outside, Ring doorbell footage captured her shouting ‘come on, big girl’ as she approached Chloe, adding: ‘Come on then, I will stab you.’

While the murder itself was not recorded, jurors were told a male could be heard laughing.

Seconds later, Smith and Rycroft are filmed running back to the summer house.

About a minute after the attack – in which Chloe was stabbed five times to the neck and back – Smith can be heard pleading with her grandad not to call 999.

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