{"id":504165,"date":"2026-03-30T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:33:10","slug":"family-pay-tribute-to-stabbing-victim-chloe-watson-dransfield-as-police-make-fresh-arrest-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504165\/","title":{"rendered":"Family pay tribute to stabbing victim Chloe Watson Dransfield – as police make fresh arrest | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a 16-year-old girl who died after a stabbing in Leeds have paid tribute to her – as police made a fifth arrest. <\/p>\n

West Yorkshire Police named the victim as Chloe Watson Dransfield from Gomersal, West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

She was found unconscious with stab wounds in the city at 5.55am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, her family said: “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

“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

They added: “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

Police were called to Kennerleigh Avenue<\/a>, in the Austhorpe area of Leeds, on Saturday morning following reports that a young woman had been found unconscious.<\/p>\n

Four people remain in police custody on Monday after they were arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n

A fifth person, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody.<\/p>\n

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Flowers have been left at the scene for the teenager.<\/p>\n

One of the messages said it was for “my beautiful girl” and “rest easy my Chloe. Love you forever my crazy girl”.<\/p>\n

Two women taped a photo of Chloe to a box on the roadside next to bouquets of flowers.<\/p>\n

A relative, who set up an online fundraising page, said on the site her “life was sadly taken in tragedy, 16 years young, didn’t even make it to her 18th”.<\/p>\n

‘Innocent beautiful soul’<\/p>\n

They said: “I wanted to create a GoFundMe to help give her the best send-off possible. She didn’t deserve this.<\/p>\n

“She was so full of life. Such an innocent beautiful soul taken too soon.”<\/p>\n

The initial four arrested include two women aged 18, a man aged 19 and a 17-year-old boy, who were all arrested at a nearby address.<\/p>\n

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Police statement<\/p>\n

Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle, who is now leading the investigation, said: “Our thoughts remain with Chloe’s family at this incredibly difficult time. Our specially-trained officers continue to provide them with support.<\/p>\n

“Our investigation into her death is ongoing and five people arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody, as we continue to establish the full circumstances of this incident.<\/p>\n

“I am appealing to anyone with any relevant information to contact us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a 16-year-old girl who died after a stabbing in Leeds have paid tribute to her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}