Handicapped man killers arrested

By Madura Ranwala-November 19, 2012,

 The Boralesgamuwa police early yesterday arrested four suspects over Sinday night’s killing of the mentally handicapped brother of a three wheeler driver at Divlapitiya Temple Road in Boralesgamuwa.

The suspects would be produced before the Gangodawila Magistrate today, police said.

Police spokesman SSP Prishantha Jayakody said that the suspects, residing in Boresgamuwa, were arrested with the knife they used to kill the victim, Delappuli Don Chanaka Amila. who had been sleeping at the time of the attack.

The 22-year-old victim had been living with his mother and brother. However, according to the police, the suspects, who were between 25 and 35, had targeted the victim’s brother, who is a trishaw driver, due to a dispute between them.

The killers had apparently mistaken the victim for his elder brother in the dark.

Police said the dispute was over a trishaw and it would be investigated further. One of the killers was a trishaw driver and the others were his friends.