SQ clears Cedrika Provencher suspect

Cedrika Provencher went missing in 2007. Her skull was found in Dec. 2015

A man who police considered a suspect in the abduction and murder of Cedrika Provencher has been cleared by a polygraph test.

The Sureté du Quebec said the man recently agreed to take the so-called lie detector test, and as a result police no longer consider him a suspect.

Last month the SQ resumed searching a section of woods where Cedrika's skull was found, which they said was the result of a new tip they had received.

Cedrika was nine years old when she was abducted from a street near her home on July 31, 2007.

Hunters found her skull in December in a wooded area about 15 km from Trois Rivieres.

With a file from The Canadian Press