A man has been handed a life sentence for murdering a Canadian teenager he met on a dating app.

Jack Sepple, 23, will serve a minimum of 23 years and six months behind bars after killing his 19-year-old girlfriend Ashley Wadsworth at the flat they shared in Chelmsford in Essex.

Sepple stabbed Miss Wadsworth and carried out a “brutal and cowardly attack” and “gratuitously inflicted some 90 wounds on her body”, said judge Justice Murray.

Officers were called to an address in Tennyson Road on 1 February shortly after 4pm following reports of a disturbance.

While paramedics tried to save Miss Wadsworth, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sepple admitted at an earlier hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court to her murder, and showed no reaction as he was handed a life prison sentence at the same court on Monday.

Miss Wadsworth was from British Columbia in Canada.

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