ACCUSED FREED - KOTAKETHANA DOUBLE MURDER
ACCUSED FREED - KOTAKETHANA DOUBLE MURDER
By Ishara Rathnakara-2015-05
Colombo High Court Judge Devika de Livera Tennakoon yesterday (28) acquitted all three accused in the Kotakethana double murder of a mother and daughter as evidence presented before Court was contradictory in nature.
The three accused were acquitted of all charges. The three accused were Namal Chaminda Silva, Sisira Priyantha alias Kumara and Lokugamhewage Mithila.
The three accused were acquitted of all charges. The three accused were Namal Chaminda Silva, Sisira Priyantha alias Kumara and Lokugamhewage Mithila.
The Attorney General filed an indictment in the Colombo High Court against the three accused charging them with having murdered, on 19 July or on a date thereabouts in 2012, 63-year-old Liyanaarachchige Premawathie and her 23-year-old daughter Hewagamage Pushpakumari, residents of Kotakethana in Kahawatte, and torching their bodies inside the house in which they had lived.
Due to various reasons the case was not heard in the High Court in Ratnapura but was transferred to the Colombo High Court.
A. Siripala, a resident of Kotakethana who had been taken into custody on suspicion of being involved in this crime, was granted a conditional pardon by the Attorney General and turned State witness and gave evidence against the accused.
