Three months after arriving in the UK, Ashley Wadsworth’s boyfriend fatally stabbed her.
A 23-year-old Essex resident has confessed to killing his young Canadian lover.
Jack Sepple killed 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth, from Vernon in British Columbia, at a house in Chelmsford in February after meeting her on a dating app.
Paramedics tried to save Ms Wadsworth but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
An inquest hearing was told that she died of “stab wounds to the chest”.
Christopher Paxton QC, for Sepple, said that the “issue of fitness is now resolved” and requested that the defendant be asked to enter a plea.
The court clerk read the single charge of murder and Sepple, standing in the secure dock in a long white sleeved top and with tattoos on his face and hand, replied: “I’m guilty.”
Judge Christopher Morgan told 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 until a date is found for sentencing.
Ms Wadsworth moved to Chelmsford in November 2021, she wrote on Facebook.
Earlier this year she posted photos online of her “amazing trip to London”, where she had been sightseeing.