By Paula Carlson The Leader

When Jas Cheema’s 11-year-old daughter walked down the aisle as a flower girl at the wedding of her uncle Paul Cheema and Shemina Hirji, she felt like a princess.

“She said it was a dream come true. She said she always wanted to be a flower girl,” said Jas Cheema, Paul Cheema’s sister-in-law.

Now, the little girl sometimes doesn’t want to get out of bed.

“For kids, he was the best uncle in the world,” said Jas, who has two children. “He brought them presents, took them to movies. He took (my daughter) for a manicure,” Jas told The Leader Monday, a day after Paul Cheema was released from police custody.

His father drove Paul from the family’s South Surrey home where he has been staying to the police station Saturday. He was released without charge Sunday afternoon.

RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr, who would not officially name the man arrested, is calling the man the “primary suspect” in the July 5 killing of Hirji.