Big
reward for info on Lankan's killing
From Neville de Silva in London
London's Metropolitan Police are offering a reward
of £20,000 (about Rs. 3.8 million) for information leading
to the identification, arrest and prosecution of those responsible
for killing of a person of Sri Lankan origin in Greater London last
August.
Among
the telephone numbers provided for passing on information relating
to the killing is a special confidential Tamil hotline that was
set up when there was a spate of serious crimes including revenge
killings and other murders and financial frauds among Tamils, embarrassing
the vast majority of the Tamil community who are law-abiding.
Twenty-nine-year-old
Keetheeswaran Shanmuganathan, a Sri Lankan Tamil living at Kingsbury,
was seated in a blue Honda car with three friends around 9 p.m.
on August 27 when a man shot him through the window of the parked
car.
Mr.
Shanmuganathan died at the scene. The killer, described as tall
and thin had approached the driver's side and fired at least one
shot. The gunman then calmly walked into nearby Buck Lane where
he got into a dark-coloured car and drove off.
The
Police believe, the local newspaper Harrow Times reported, that
the getaway vehicle may have been parked in the area for some time
before the shooting. That is why the police are offering a reward,
hoping that one or more people will come forward with information.
Police
have provided a telephone number so that information might be passed
on to officers of the Specialist Crime Directorate which are investigating
the murder, from an incident room in Hendon. |