Uzbek couple sentenced to death for murder

16 July 2014 10:22 am Views - 5659

Colombo High Court today sentenced to death an Uzbekistan husband and wife found guilty of murdering an eight-year-old Chinese child and the baby sitter at Nawala on February 23, 2010.

High Court Trial-at-Bar Judges Devika De Livera Tennakoon and Wimal Nabuwasam said the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the case against the accused Mashour Eugene and Yanna Brishyana charged with the murder of Chinese child Jasim Shun and baby sitter Daisy Manohari.

The Court also sentenced the couple to 12 months rigorous imprisonment and fined each of them Rs.25,000. The court them to pay Rs.500, 000 each to Victoria Jasim Kim as compensation

In default they were imposed a further 24 months simple imprisonment.

The accused in their dock statements said they were innocent and that Victoria Jasim and Janath Vithana with the help of the Police had conspired accuse them of murder.

The second suspect Yanna Brishyana said she was a mother of an eight-year-old child and would do no such thing as killing another child.(FT)