A retired farmer from Gravelbourg who was sentenced to six years in prison has had another year tacked onto his sentence.

Robert Arams, 76, was sentenced to six years in October after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Claude Landry.

On Dec. 13 at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Moose Jaw, Arams was given the additional sentence after pleading guilty to causing an indignity to a body.

The night he was shot, Landry showed up to Arams’s farm with a few friends which angered him. Arams, who had been selling illicit drugs to the community for a number of years, said he suspected Landry of stealing from him, and pointed a long-barrel gun at him and asked him to leave.

Arams' lawyer told the court that he didn’t remember pulling the trigger and believed the gun to be faulty.

Arams moved the body in order to bury it on his farm with the help of David and Shauna Prentice. After they left, Arams used a loader to move Landry’s body for a second time.