Trent Larsen, now 54, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting he went too far during a domestic fight with Angel Lyn Fehr, who was 27.
In a joint submission between defence and prosecution, court heard Larsen killed Fehr by strangling her with a lamp cord at their home on Edgemount Avenue in Kamloops on May 2, 2000.
“Fehr threatened Larsen with the knife and a violent struggle ensued,” Crown prosecutor Neil Wiberg said, noting Larsen struck Fehr with a nearby lamp to disarm her, but was unsuccessful. Fehr stabbed Larsen several times as he wrapped the lamp cord around her neck. As Larsen applied pressure, Fehr continued to strike at him with the knife, but eventually lost consciousness, Wiberg said.
The crime went unsolved for 19 years when, on Sept. 14, 2019, Larsen admitted his guilt in a Mr. Big sting operation, in which he confessed the crime to a gangster who was, in fact, an undercover police officer. Larsen refused to address the court, but his lawyer, Troy Anderson, said his client feels tremendous remorse for the offence and has regretted it ever since.
“The guilt he carried with him from that has followed him to today,” Anderson said, “He’s spent the last 20 years bouncing around from poorly paid job to poorly paid job, continuing to abuse drugs and alcohol up to and including the time the major crime technique would be used upon him.”Article content
The Crown asked for an eight-year prison sentence for the domestic manslaughter and three-and-a-half years for the charge of indecency to a human body, to be served consecutively.
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