Angry in the Great White North

CTV is reporting this shocking development in the case of the murder of Shemina Hirji:

The body of Paul Cheema, whose wife was found murdered just five days after they married, has been found in the Surrey, B.C. home where he lived, CTV News has learned.

Sources, such as neighbours and friends, told CTV British Columbia's Julia Foy that Cheema's body was found in the home where he had been living with his parents.

An autopsy will be performed and authorities are investigating the matter as a suspicious death.

Police are tight-lipped, and have not officially identified the body found.

Paul Cheema was the husband of Shemina Hirji. Shemina was murdered in the Cheema home in Surry, British Columbia, a victim of an alleged home invasion as reported by Paul Cheema, who was present during the attack but who was not injured. Immediately suspicion grew, and not long after police announced that the home invasion theory was discredited and that Paul Cheema was the person of interest. Cheema was picked up and questioned, but released with no charges laid. However, he was forbidden from leaving the jurisdiction, and police continued their investigation, centering on Cheema. It was also revealed that Paul Cheema had spent time in prison on kidnapping charges, having forcibly confined a woman who had broken off an engagement with Cheema.

More as it happens.

If this does close the book on this case, we may yet learn the details that have been kept under wraps by the police while the investigation was active.

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