Children of Toronto billionaire couple angrily reject murder-suicide theory, as homicide team probes deaths
‘It’s irresponsible that police sources have reportedly advised the media of a theory which neither their family, their friends nor their colleagues believe to be true’
Toronto’s homicide unit has taken over a probe into the suspicious deaths of Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey, police said on Sunday after finding they had died from strangulation.
“The cause of death for both deceased was ligature neck compression,” Toronto police said in a statement after postmortem examinations of the bodies of the 75-year-old Apotex chairman and his 70-year-old wife.
“Toronto Police Service Homicide has taken the lead in this suspicious death investigation,” the police said, without further details.
At 11:44am on Friday, officers responded to an emergency call at the couple’s home on Old Colony Road, in a plush neighbourhood of Toronto.
Local media cited a police source as saying the Shermans’ bodies were found hanging from a railing around a basement pool, the theory being that the Apotex chairman killed his wife Honey, hung her body and then hanged himself by the pool’s edge.