Canada TRINA HUNT: Missing from Port Moody, BC - 18 Jan 2021 - Age 48 *Found Deceased*

Police call on public in case of missing 48-year-old Port Moody woman

Trina Hunt was last seen at her home Jan. 18 at 6 a.m., according to a spokesperson for the Port Moody Police Department.

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Police call on public in case of missing 48-year-old Port Moody woman​

Port Moody police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 48-year-old woman.

Trina Hunt was last seen at her home Jan. 18 at 6 a.m., according to a spokesperson for the Port Moody Police Department.

'It's chaos': Massive search underway for missing Port Moody woman

Trina Hunt was last seen in her Port Moody home Monday morning, Jan. 18; when her husband returned home, she had vanished

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'It's chaos': Massive search underway for missing Port Moody woman​

A sweeping search and investigation are underway for a 48-year-old Port Moody woman reported missing after her husband came home to an empty house.

Trina Hunt was last reported seen Jan. 18 at around 6 a.m. at her Heritage Woods home when her husband left for work. When he returned, she was nowhere to be found, prompting a call to the Port Moody Police Department, police spokesperson Sgt. Ian Morrison said.

That evening a Coquitlam Search and Rescue ground crew was deployed to the area around her house, where volunteer rescuers combed the nearby trails and wilderness area for the woman in the first of two eight-hour operational periods, said Coquitlam SAR president Tom Zajac.

In the nearly 48 hours since Hunt was first reported missing, Sgt. Morrison confirmed Port Moody police, an RCMP helicopter and a canine unit have all joined the search. “Folks need to be aware they may see the helicopter in the area again,” said Sgt. Morrison.


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Rally organized in honour of Trina Hunt following husband’s criminal charge

The family of a Port Moody woman who was found dead four years ago is being forced to wait even longer for justice.

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Rally organized in honour of Trina Hunt following husband’s criminal charge​

The family of a Port Moody woman who was found dead four years ago is being forced to wait even longer for justice.

Trina Hunt’s husband was supposed to appear in court on an indignity to human remains charge Wednesday, but the case has now been put over to next month.

A rally planned for outside the Port Coquitlam Courthouse where Iain Hunt was scheduled to appear still went ahead as planned.

The ‘Justice for Trina Rally’ was organized by members of the community to show support for Trina Hunt’s loved ones.

Dozens of friends, family, and neighbours were in attendance, holding signs and wearing purple, which was her favourite colour.

“What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” chanted the crowd.

“It’s been four years since Trina was murdered, and we’ve been waiting patiently for charges that hold the person that murdered her accountable,” said Stephanie Ibbott, Hunt’s cousin-in-law, through tears.

Iain Hunt was charged with indignity to human remains last month.

“It’s not enough. It’s not justice. So we are here to demand that justice be served, and that the people responsible for murdering Trina are held accountable, not with a slap of the wrist to sentence,” said Ibbott.

 

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Port Moody teen starts campaign in memory of her aunt, Trina Hunt | Tri-City Local News

A Port Moody Grade 12 student has launched a fundraising campaign in memory of her late aunt, Trina Hunt, to support women affected by gender-based violence

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Port Moody teen starts campaign in memory of her aunt, Trina Hunt​

A Port Moody Grade 12 student has launched a fundraising campaign in memory of her late aunt, Trina Hunt, to support women affected by gender-based violence. The initiative began on Monday as the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence got underway.

The campaign was created by Taylor Ibbott, who said in a statement on her GoFundMe page that her Grade 12 Capstone project is dedicated to raising awareness about gender-based violence. Hunt was found dead in 2021 after being reported missing in January of that year.

“This project is inspired by my aunt, Trina Hunt, one of the 1,125 women lost to gender-based violence in Canada between 2011–2021,” Ibbott wrote. According to the page, Ibbott plans to establish an annual bursary “for women personally impacted by GBV and pursuing education as part of rebuilding their lives or for women involved in activism or community work related to GBV.”

Ibbott hopes to raise $11,250 and reach 1,125 donors, with each donor representing a woman who lost her life to gender-based violence during that 10-year period. “Please Donate $10,” she wrote. “With a gift of $10 you become one of the 1,125 donors each standing for a life that was tragically lost.”

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Earlier in her project, Ibbott sold more than 1,125 purple tulip bulbs—a flower her aunt loved and a colour symbolizing solidarity in the movement to end gender-based violence. “I raised $3,000 and donated it to the Battered Women’s Support Services,” she stated.

All funds from the current campaign will go toward creating a scholarship and bursary program in partnership with the Port Moody Foundation, which will be able to issue tax receipts for larger donations once the fund is formally established. “By contributing, you are helping build something that lasts beyond one project—you are helping create a legacy of hope, year after year,” Ibbott wrote.

 

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Trina Hunt’s husband’s trial won’t start until October 2027 - BC | Globalnews.ca

"I think at a certain point I stopped counting," Stephanie Ibbott, Trina Hunt's cousin-in-law, said on Wednesday, of Iain Hunt's court appearances.

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Trina Hunt’s husband’s trial won’t start until October 2027​

The family of a Port Moody, B.C., woman who disappeared more than five years ago is wondering if there will ever be any justice in her case.

Trina Hunt, 48, was reported missing to the Port Moody Police Department on Jan. 18, 2021.

Her body was found on March 29, 2021 near Hope, south of Silver Creek.

On Feb. 4, 2025, her husband, Iain Hunt, was charged with one count of indignity to human remains by allegedly disposing of her body in the woods at or near Port Moody and Hope on Jan. 16, two days before he reported his wife missing.

No one has been charged in her death and the cause of her death remains a mystery.

Iain Hunt has made dozens of court appearances since, with the trial continuously pushed back.

Global News has now learned that Iain Hunt’s trial will not take place until October 2027.

“I think at a certain point I stopped counting,” Stephanie Ibbott, Trina Hunt’s cousin-in-law, said on Wednesday.

“I just stopped believing that anything would happen. We travel to the mainland from the island for all of these, just to find out at the last minute it’s been cancelled, so you almost start to give up hope and certainly with the trial date being so far away, it makes the whole situation feel very hopeless that there will ever be justice.”

Iain Hunt will be tried 32 months after he was charged in February 2025.

Under Supreme Court of Canada guidelines, provincial court trials should conclude within 18 months of charges being laid; however, criminal lawyer and former Crown prosecutor Rob Dhanu, K.C. said it’s not a stopwatch calculation.

In this case, Dhanu said court records show a defence-initiated adjournment when trial dates were set this month.

“What that likely means is that the defence requested more time for the trial to be set, most likely due to their own calendar,” Dhanu, K.C. told Global News. “What that means in turn is that that 19 months between March 2026 and October 2027 would not count towards that 32 months, so we are quite a bit under the Jordan (decision) guidelines.”

The BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) said the Crown has been making efforts to have the Iain Hunt matter proceed expeditiously, and it has not received a notice of an application under section 11(b) of the Charter for a stay of proceedings.

According to Section 11(b), an accused person has the right to be tried within a reasonable time, and unreasonable delays can lead to charges being stayed or dropped.

“The timelines set by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Jordan decision…relate to net delay (i.e. after appropriate deductions for periods of defence delay, waived delay, discrete events and exceptional circumstances),” the BCPS said in an email.

Iain Hunt had no comment to Global News when he was reached on Wednesday.