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End of a young innings
A cricket fan who was disappointed that Sri Lanka lost the T-20 Championship final last Sunday committed suicide, a coroner’s inquest was told in Hatton this week. The inquest was held before Hatton’s inquirer into sudden deaths A.J.M.Fazeer.
Ratnam Rajeshwari, 52, told the coroner that her son Mahendran Surendran (26) who returned home after work at a quarry had watched the match at a neighbour’s house. He had been there till about 11.30 p.m.
“My son loved cricket and watched matches with great enthusiasm,” Mahendran’s mother said. She said on that fateful night he had returned home and chased the three of them, herself, her husband and daughter, out of the house and locked the door.
She said that when they returned home a couple of hours later, they found he had committed suicide. Mahendran was rushed to the Dickoya District hospital, but was pronounced dead.
Neighbours said that Mahendran would have committed suicide because he was disappointed that Sri Lanka lost. They said he had been following the T-20 Championship matches closely and had great expectation that Sri Lanka would clinch the cup.
The postmortem was held at the Nawalapitiya Base Hospital.
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