The 23-year-old Canadian Jack Sepple has confessed to killing his 19-year-old Canadian girlfriend Ashley Wadsworth, whom he met via a dating app.
This morning before Chelmsford Crown Court, he made the admission.
On February 1, Sepple, of Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, Essex, was charged with killing Ms. Wadsworth at his residence.
On February 1, soon after 4 o’clock, Essex Police responded to a call at a Tennyson Road house.
Despite their best attempts, paramedics declared the Canadian kid dead at the site.
She was found dead in her chest after suffering several stab wounds, according to an inquest conducted earlier this month.
The adolescent was discovered unconscious at 4.38 p.m., and paramedics determined that life had ended.
Her tentative medical cause of death was determined by a post-mortem investigation to be “stab wounds to the chest,” according to the coroner’s officer.
Lincoln Brookes, the senior coroner for Essex, put the inquest on hold while the criminal investigation was being conducted.
Ms. Wadsworth met Sepple via an online dating service; they both hail from Vernon, British Columbia.
She announced her transfer to Chelmsford on Facebook in November 2021. Just a few days later, she was scheduled to return home to see her family.
Ashley’s family hailed her “unforgettable laugh” and celebrated her “spontaneous, humorous, compassionate nature” in a family memorial published by Essex Police earlier this month.
Ashley, you are wonderful to us, and we shall miss you very, very much, they continued.
It was said about the adolescent that she was “fiercely affectionate and loyal to her family and friends.”
Hailey, Ashley’s elder sister, said that she would always consider Ashley to be her “best friend.”
She was praised by her niece Paisley, who dubbed her the “greatest aunt ever” and thanked her for putting up her own cash to purchase her a swing set.
The girl had travelled widely inside Canada as well as to Mexico, California, and England, and her family respected her spirit of adventure.
She acquired a love of languages, speaking English, French, and Spanish, as well as a thirst for life experience while living overseas.
Ashley had been admitted to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, and had aspirations of becoming a lawyer.
She was eager to share her newfound religion with others since she had just lately come to it.
In particular, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Helen, and the Taylor family, who organised Ashley’s vigil, were commended by her family for their support from the residents of Chelmsford.
There are just no words to adequately explain how much it impacted them.
They were able to help Ashley in a way that we were unable to, and for that, we are eternally grateful.
How fortunate are we that individuals from all around the globe show such concern for a family they have never met?