The recently promoted Toronto police officer leading the Barry and Honey Sherman murder investigation is also now running the force’s citywide operations centre, police have confirmed.
Toronto police maintain the Sherman probe is “active” — but its lead investigator is now wearing a senior officer’s uniform and no longer working in homicide.
The Shermans were last seen alive on Dec. 13, 2017.
Two days later, a real estate agent showing a couple and another agent through the Sherman home discovered their bodies in their basement pool room. Autopsies revealed they died of ligature neck compression.
The Sherman family recently held a news conference to offer a $10-million reward in the case. At the conference, family lawyer Brian Greenspan criticized the Toronto police investigation.
Meanwhile, veteran Apotex employees are reeling from the decision last week by the Shermans’ son, Jonathon, to tell his father’s partner of 35 years, Jack Kay, to leave the company that Kay and Barry Sherman built. Sources within Apotex say they were surprised that Kay, 78, was treated that way and was not even given a farewell party. In a brief statement, Apotex spokesperson Jordan Berman said, “All of us at Apotex wish Jack the best of luck in his future pursuits.”
The Apotex company is now controlled and owned by Jonathon and his three sisters.
The Star has asked Jonathon Sherman questions about Kay’s dismissal, but he has not responded. Kay could not be reached for comment.
