A preliminary hearing began Monday into the August, 2011 murder of Karine Faubert.

The body of the 21-year old woman was found in a field near Godmanchester in the Montérégie.

She had been shot to death.

A former boyfriend Marc-Olivier Perras has been charged in the case.

At the time of his arrest it had been speculated that Faubert had been killed over an outstanding debt.

A judge has imposed a publication ban on the hearing which is expected to last about a week.