Death sentence for Seya’s murderer

15 March 2016 12:28 pm Views - 11384

Saman Jayalath, found guilty of the charge of murdering five-year-old Seya Sadewmi of Kotadeniyawa, was sentenced to death by the Negombo High Court today.

He was also sentenced to 60 years in jail on the three counts of Sixty years imprisonment was abducting, abusing and raping the little girl.

Seya Sadewmi disappeared from her home on September 11 last year and her body was discovered two days later.

The murder investigation was surrounded by controversy with several suspects including a schoolboy being arrested and later released based on DNA tests.(Tony Karunaratne)