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Man found guilty of murdering Winnipeg woman found in barrel in backyard

May 29, 2019 | 8:13 PM

WINNIPEG — A man has been convicted of killing a woman whose body was found in a barrel in the backyard of a Winnipeg home they shared with several other women.

A jury has found Perez Cleveland, who is 46, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2016 death of 42-year-old Jennifer Barrett.

The trial heard that Cleveland shared a house with his adult daughter and five women, who were described by one of them as “sister wives.”