The grave of Ashley Wadsworth (2002-2022) is found here at the Vernon Cemetery in Vernon, British Columbia.  She was a victim of severe domestic violence from a British man she met online at an early age.  There are many documentaries related to this case.  More info below:

Ashley Wadsworth was a 19-year-old girl from Vernon in British Columbia, Canada. She was bright and studious and was known for her kindness. She would make friends with International students to ensure that they didn’t feel lonely in a new country. At age 12, Ashley had become friends with a 15-year-old from Chelmsford, Essex in England via Facebook called Jack Sepple. The two began a long-distance relationship. Ashley and Jack would often argue and at one stage, Ashley blocked Jack in which he responded by making alt accounts and sending vile and angry messages to Ashley’s family. Jack would often accuse Ashley of cheating on him with other boys from Vernon. The two always made-up and discussed Ashley travelling to meet Jack. Ashley believed that Jack had a good heart deep down and spoke highly of him to her family. Back in Essex however, Jack was seeing numerous other girls.

Jack got a tattoo of Ashley’s name and at one point when arguing with her, he dragged a knife across it. At age 18 in 2020, Ashley was contacted by numerous girls who were in relationships with Jack asking for her help as he’d gotten aggressive when arguing with them, even to the point that he trapped one girl in his house.

In November 2021, age 19, Ashley went solo on flight to visit Jack, now aged 23. Ashley stayed with Jack at his home in Chelmsford. A fun time in the UK soon became sour when Jack would opt for them to stay indoors.  As weeks progressed, Jack’s abusive behaviour intensified. Ashley was interested in studying about the church and Mormons. However Jack hated this and forbade her from going to church. She had made some new missionary friends that she contacted via Whatsapp but had to delete the messages as Jack forbade her from talking to them. On December 26th 2021, Jack angrily hit Ashley and accused her of cheating on him when two unknown numbers had contacted her phone. Due to Jack’s mental health issues, Ashley agreed to stick by him and support him. Around this time, Jack attempted to take his own life which led to Ashley being appointed as his carer.

While there were many instances of abuse, Jack later on flew into an explosive rage after discovering an old Whatsapp message on Ashley’s phone from a friend, accusing her of cheating once again. Ashley was forced to hand over her passwords and social media access.

On February 1st 2022, Jack got angry and accused Ashley of cheating again. A woman called Helen living next door was surprised to open her door to see Ashley bare footed, crying and bleeding. Jack had hit her, thrown their pet kitten Winston against the wall and smashed her phone to pieces. Ashley was worried about calling the police in case Jack would attempt suicide again. Ashley begged Helen not to call the police to which she reluctantly agreed. Helen asked Ashley to come with her but Ashley refused as she was worried about leaving Jack. Helen walked with Ashley back to Jack’s house. When talking with Helen, Jack apologized to her for the ruckus. Things seemed to have calmed down so Helen went back home. At around 9am, Ashley phoned her family and said she was coming home. She booked a flight to return to Canada which was leaving two days later. Jack seemed oddly calm when Ashley explained that she was leaving and even agreed to take her to get a COVID test done before leaving. Hailey would later contact Jack’s mother to inform her of the situation - his mother simply said that she couldn’t help. She then told Hailey that Jack was going to kill himself when she left.

It is believed that at approximately 11am that day, Jack decided that he was going to murder Ashley. At around 12:38pm - he put his plan into action.  After the murder, Jack messaged his mother explaining that he’d beat Ashley up and broke her arm. She did not reply to this message.  He then sent messages to Ashley’s friends pretending to be her while playing on his XBox. He then uploaded a photograph to Facebook of him and Ashley captioning it ‘’Forever Mine’’.

Earlier, Jamie, a Mormon friend of Ashley’s had visited the house but called the police when there was no sign of her, concerned for her safety. The police shortly arrived after Jack made his video message where he was arrested.  Jack Sepple was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 23 and a half years (this doesn’t necessarily mean that he will be released after the minimum term, just that his sentence will be reviewed).  It was later revealed that Jack had given himself self-inflicted wounds in order to make it look like Ashley had attacked him and he had killed her in ‘self defence’.

In the United States, one in three women (33%) & one in four men (25%) have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.  For women that number is 44% in Canada & 27% in the UK.

Help is available 24/7 at the National Domestic Violence Hotline

1-800-799-SAFE

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/1d011ai/on_february_1st_2022_19yearold_ashley_wadsworth/