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Kayla Smith, 18, has pleaded guilty to murdering 16-year-old Chloe Watson Dransfield in a pre-planned street fight over a boy. Smith stabbed Chloe five times in the neck and back in the early hours of March 28. The two girls had been in a dispute over Blake Dowling, 18, who had been in 'on-off' relationships with both of them. Smith had initially pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder. However, on the second day of her trial, she changed her plea to guilty for the more serious 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. Both Dowling and Rycroft deny murder and manslaughter.
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