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In pictures: Duminda and others sentenced to death

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These are some of the scenes that were witnessed last afternoon at the Colombo High Court, when former MP Duminda Silva and four others were sentenced to death after having been found guilty in the murder of former MP and Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three others on October 8, 2011. 

Pix by Indika Handuwala 

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