Seven persons who beat up a youth with Cricket stumps to death in Modara, 13 years back, were sentenced by the Colombo High Court today with five of them being sentenced to death and two others to a life imprisonment.
The sentence was passed by High Court judge Nawaratne Marasinghe
The convicts are now in the age groups of 27 to 29 years while two were below 18 years when they murdered Francis Suranjan over a personal dispute on September 26, 2012.
A total of nine persons were involved in the incident, but two of them died while the cases was continuing.
The allegations against the seven suspects were proved beyond doubt.
The suspected pleaded for lenient sentence while claiming they were not involved in the incident.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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