On a quiet cul-de-sac in Chelmsford, England, a handwritten note left on the ground attached to a bouquet of purple flowers reads: “Ashley, you were so beautiful.”
It’s part of a growing makeshift memorial near the police cordon where authorities say Ashley Wadsworth, 19, from Vernon, B.C., was killed on Tuesday.
On Thursday morning, three Essex police officers were seen standing guard outside the two-storey row house where Wadsworth’s boyfriend lived.
Jack Sepple, 23, appeared in court Thursday in Colchester, England, charged with her murder.
“Ashley was such a lovely girl,” a neighbour told CBC News at the scene in Chelmsford,
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