Dating app murderer gets life sentence

A 23-year-old man has been handed a life sentence for murdering a Canadian teenager he met on a dating app

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

Officers were called to an address in Tennyson Road on the first of February.

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

Sepple admitted to her murder, but showed no reaction as he was handed a life prison sentence .