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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.

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