A teenager has admitted murdering a Gomersal girl less than two days into her trial.

Kayla Smith, 18, stabbed 16-year-old Chloe Watson Dransfield with a knife during a pre-planned fight on Kennerleigh Avenue in Austhorpe, Leeds, on March 28.

Smith denied murder and admitted manslaughter, which was not accepted by the Crown.

However, on the second day of her trial on Thursday, she pleaded guilty to the more serious charge.

placeholder image — Kayla Smith has now admitted murder.

At the opening of her trial yesterday (Wednesday), the court heard that the pair had clashed because they had both been romantically involved with 18-year-old Blake Dowling.

The judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh KC, said he would sentence Smith, of Kennerleigh Avenue, once the trial involving the other defendants was over.

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.

The trial will continue for her two co-defendants, Dowling, who was with Chloe and is accused of encouraging the fight, and Archie Rycroft, 20, who was with Smith at the fight and is also accused of encouraging the violence.

Dowling, of no fixed address, and Rycroft, of Middleton Park Road, Leeds, both deny murder and manslaughter.

The trial continues.