Man Given Life Sentence For Killing Pregnant Woman

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:33

A “routine” pre-trial conference in a high-profile murder case turned out to be anything but Monday at Court of Queen’s Bench in Prince Albert.

Stephen Lindsay Schutte, a 31 year-old city resident, decided to enter a guilty plea instead of the usual legal wranglings that go into a pre-trial event.

Schutte was charged with the second-degree murder of Antoinette Daniels, an Aboriginal woman whose body was found floating in the North Saskatchewan river in August of 2004.

She had already been missing for a week when the discovery took place.

The judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole for the next ten years.

Schutte also received a five-year sentence for interfering with a dead body.

Daniels was seven months pregnant at the time of her death.