THIS is the woman left picking up the pieces as murder squad detectives continue an international manhunt for her fugitive husband.
The Daily Echo today prints the first picture of Shalinder Kaur - wife of Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, prime suspect in the Hannah Foster murder inquiry.
Yesterday as Hampshire detectives continued liaising with police in India - where Singh is believed to have fled - his wife faced further questioning about her husband's disappearance.
Shalinder had already been arrested in connection with the Operation Springfield murder inquiry after her husband was identified as the key suspect.
Yesterday she was quizzed for a second time after surrendering to bail at Bitterne police station in Southampton.
The mother-of-two, who has sons aged four and six, looked anxious as she was dropped off by family members in the police station car park.
She was later released after further questioning by detectives.
Today a Hampshire police spokeswoman confirmed: "A woman in her 30s has been questioned and released on bail until June, pending further inquiries."
Shalinder had lived with Singh, 35, and their children in a flat in Broadlands Road, Swaythling, but the property is believed to have been sold in March.
She is now understood to be staying with her family at an address in Southampton.
Singh, a sandwich delivery driver known to colleagues as "Mindy", was identified as the prime suspect for the murder of 17-year-old Hannah Foster following an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch UK programme on March 28.
Police inquiries revealed he had caught a flight from Heathrow to Delhi two days after the teenager's body was discovered in Allington Lane, West End. She had been raped and strangled.
A warrant for Singh's arrest has been issued by Southampton magistrates on the grounds of murder, kidnap, false imprisonment, rape, manslaughter and perverting the course of justice.
The document was faxed through to the Indian authorities via Interpol last month but Singh remains at large. Detectives believe he is hiding in the Punjab.
This week three members of the police investigation team are in India liaising with detectives from the Indian equivalent of the FBI, Interpol and other agencies.
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