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Ashley Wadsworth died after police were called to reports of a disturbance in Chelmsford
By Laurence Cawley & Zoie O'Brien
BBC News, East
For years, Jack Sepple and Ashley Wadsworth were modern-day pen pals who used the
internet to bridge the 4,500-mile (7,242km) distance between them. But just months after
19-year-old Ashley decided to leave Canada to start a new life living with Sepple in the UK,
he murdered her. What happened?
"It is so traumatising to think of her last moments," says Ashley's mother Christy
Gendron. "How scared she must have been, what her last words were, did she ask for
us?
"I'll never know. Two people know - one has gone and the other probably wouldn't tell
the truth anyway."
Ashley, from Vernon in British Columbia, arrived in the UK to live with 23-year-old
Sepple at his one-bedroom flat in Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, last November.
On 1 February this year, police found Ashley had been both strangled and repeatedly
stabbed in the chest. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Sepple was sitting in bed
next to her body when he was found by police.
After admitting Ashley's murder, Sepple has been sentenced to life with a minimum term
of 23 years and six months.
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