The boyfriend of slain Salmon Arm, B.C., woman Ashley Simpson has been sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 12 years, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Derek Favell was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon after pleading guilty to the killing last October.
In 2016, Simpson, 32, went missing from a rural property near Salmon Arm — a southern Interior community around 75 kilometres east of Kamloops, B.C. — where she was living with Favell, her boyfriend at the time.
Her remains were discovered in a wooded area outside Salmon Arm in late 2021, and Favell was charged with second-degree murder a week later.
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