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Punishment has been handed down to a former Kamloops man who has pleaded guilty to killing his pregnant girlfriend 21 years ago.

In Kamloops court on Tuesday, 54-year-old Trent Larsen pleaded guilty to manslaughter and offering indignity to a dead body, in the death of Angel Fehr in the spring of 2000.

On Tuesday, in an agreed statement of facts, court heard Larsen and Fehr were in a “tumultuous” common-law relationship in 2000.

After a family dinner at Fehr’s aunts house in Abbotsford, on April 23, 2000, Fehr and Larsen drove back to Kamloops, which was the last time she was seen by family or friends. Court heard Fehr was drunk and abusive during the dinner and demanded to be taken to Mission to buy drugs.

On May 15, 2000, court heard Larsen was sentenced to seven days in jail for traffic violations. When released, Larsen called Fehr’s aunt and said Fehr had “ran away” while he was incarcerated. Fehr’s aunt reported her as missing; meanwhile, two days after being released from prison, Larsen moved from Kamloops to Chilliwack, and at no point reported Fehr as missing.

In January of 2002, while police were investigating Fehr’s whereabouts, Larsen was interviewed and gave a false statement about where she might be. Further details were not immediately explained to NL News.

Sometime between May 1-15, Larsen was woken up in their home on Edgemount Avenue with Fehr straddling his chest with a butcher knife, saying Larsen was not listening to her grief as she was upset about the death of her daughter, Tia.

Court heard that Fehr threatened Larsen with the knife, and that Larsen hit her with a lamp to try and disarm her, which did not work. Fehr stabbed Larsen “several times,” while Larsen wrapped a lamp cord around her neck. She continued to try and stab him but lost consciousness from being choked by the lamp cord, which resulted in her death. Fehr was five months pregnant at the time.

Sometime afterwards, Larsen put Fehr’s body in a barrel, filled it with concrete and took her body to 100 Mile House, where he had arranged for it to be buried.

On Sept. 14, 2019, during an undercover operation by RCMP major crime unit, Larsen admitted to who he thought was a gangster, but was actually an undercover cop, that he killed Fehr and disposed of her body.

The following day, Larsen, now living in Chasm, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Fehr’s body was uncovered in a barrel the following week in a rural property just outside of 100 Mile House.

Larsen has remained in custody since then, before his guilty plea on Tuesday.

With credit for time served, Larsen will serve an additional eight-and-a-half years in a federal institution, and is scheduled to be released in early 2030.