PS chairman and 7 others further remanded

Tangalle Magistrate and Additional District Judge Uresha de Silva ordered this week to further remand the eight suspects accused of killing a British national and assaulting his Russian girlfriend on Christmas day, last year.

They were remanded till March 6. The suspects include Chairman- Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha, Sampath Vidanapathirana. British national M.Z. Shaif was killed and his Russian girlfriend Victoria Alexandra critically injured in the incident at a hotel in Tangalle.

The van in which the suspects had travelled was released to its owner on a bond of Rs 1.2 million.