A 23-year-old man from Essex has admitted to murdering his teenage Canadian girlfriend.
Jack Sepple killed 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth, from Vernon in British Columbia, at a home in Chelmsford in February after assembly her on a courting app.
Officers had been referred to as to an tackle in Tennyson Road shortly after 4pm on 1 February after studies of a disturbance.
Paramedics tried to avoid wasting Ms Wadsworth however she was pronounced useless on the scene.
An inquest listening to was advised that she died of “stab wounds to the chest”.
In a short listening to at Chelmsford Crown Court, Sepple’s barrister mentioned a psychiatrist had indicated that the defendant was match to plead.
Christopher Paxton QC, for Sepple, mentioned that the “issue of fitness is now resolved” and requested that the defendant be requested to enter a plea.
The court docket clerk learn the only cost of homicide and Sepple, standing within the safe dock in a protracted white sleeved high and with tattoos on his face and hand, replied: “I’m guilty.”
Judge Christopher Morgan advised Sepple: “By your plea of guilty to murder there’s only one sentence that can be passed and that’s a life sentence.”
He remanded the defendant in custody till a date is discovered for sentencing.
Ms Wadsworth moved to Chelmsford in November 2021, she wrote on Facebook.
Earlier this 12 months she posted photographs on-line of her “amazing trip to London”, the place she had been sightseeing.
Source: information.sky.com”