Death sentence

9 September 2010 09:45 am Views - 5023

By D.G.Sugathapala


The Southern Provincial High Court Judge Sarojini Kusala Weerawardena, today sentenced to death an accused who was found guilty of hacking to death a seven year old school boy.

The death sentence was passed on the accused identified as Sunil Jayakody alias Wadambarige Sunil also known as ‘Yaka'.

The defendant was accused of hacking the seven year old school boy, Supun Dilantha Senarath Pathirana, in 1997, in the Neluwa Police Division.