Young B.C. woman murdered in U.K., boyfriend in custody: police

ESSEX, U.Ok. --
On Monday, Canadian Ashley Wadsworth, 19, up to date her Fb profile with a selfie of her and her British boyfriend Jack Sepple smiling within the sunshine. 


The following day, following a “disturbance,” neighbours referred to as police to his Chelmsford house, east of London, U.Ok., the place they discovered her in mattress, lined in blood, with Sepple alongside her on his telephone, a court docket heard Thursday.


She’d been stabbed to demise.


Wadsworth, who's from Vernon, B.C, met Sepple on-line and travelled to the U.Ok. in November to be with him. Social media posts present the couple visiting London landmarks and celebrating his birthday on Jan. 9. 


CTV Information understands she was meant to fly again to Canada on Thursday. As an alternative, Sepple appeared in Colchester Magistrates’ Court docket charged with a single depend of homicide. He wore a gray sweatshirt and pink trousers and solely confirmed his title, deal with and date of delivery.


“I simply can’t imagine it,” mentioned a lady who lives two doorways down and most popular to not give her title. “Each time I shut my eyes I see her useless.”


She mentioned Wadsworth had come to her distressed that morning. When the girl went to inspect her later, she mentioned Sepple instructed her, “Give us 5 minutes.”


“I believed they have been having grownup time,” she instructed CTV Information.


Visibly distressed, the girl didn’t wish to get into element about what she’d witnessed that day, however mentioned: “my coronary heart goes out to her household.”


Wadsworth was a Mormon and was thanked for “her religion and friendship” on-line by Daniel Seaman, one of many many individuals posting tributes on her Fb web page.


“I’m so sorry your journey turned out to be like this,” one other particular person wrote on Fb. “You deserved so a lot better.”


Others expressed their condolences to Wadsworth’s household. 


Sepple will seem once more in court docket Friday morning.

  • Ashley Wadsworth

    Ashley Wadsworth posted this image on her Fb profile earlier than she was killed. (Picture: Fb)

  • Essex crime scene

    A police officer is seen on the scene of the crime in Essex. (Picture: Daniele Hamamdjian)

  • Essex crime scene

    Flowers have been laid in entrance of the house in Essex, England, after a younger lady from B.C. was murdered. (Picture: Daniele Hamamdjian)

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