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<\/p>\nThree teenagers have been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Chloe Watson Dransfield in Leeds, West Yorkshire Police said.<\/p>\n
Kayla Smith, 18, and Archie Rycroft, 19, have been remanded in custody to appear before Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, alongside a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons.<\/p>\n
Chloe died in hospital after being found unconscious with stab wounds in Leeds at 5.55am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Another 18-year-old man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, who were arrested on suspicion of murder, have been released on bail pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n
Police were called to an address in Kennerleigh Avenue, in the Austhorpe area, east of Leeds city centre, on Saturday morning following reports that a young woman had been found unconscious.<\/p>\n
Flowers have been left at the scene for the teenager.<\/p>\n
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Chloe’s mother said in a statement following her death: “My beautiful princess Chloe. I cannot put into words how I feel that you are not here with me.<\/p>\n
“You are my life, my world, my best friend and I know that I am yours. I cannot live without you – I need you.<\/p>\n
“You are stunning, confident, loyal, honest and my family-oriented princess.”<\/p>\n
Read more on Sky News: The statement continued: “When you walk into any room, it lights up with your bubbly personality. There is so much I could say. There’s a big hole in my heart that can never be filled.<\/p>\n “Your two sisters and big brother will always love and miss you to infinity. You will always and forever be in our hearts. Love Mum, Connor, Courtney and Cienna.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teenagers have been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Chloe Watson Dransfield in Leeds, West Yorkshire Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-374776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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