Teenage daughter killed in assault by drug-addict father

• Body dumped in toilet pit 

By Tilakaratne Dissanayake and Upali Ranaweera   

An individual who had assaulted to death his 14-year-old daughter and dumped the body in a toilet pit.   
The victim Himasha Sandaruwani was a resident of Makevita  in Gampaha. The suspect, with his wife and daughter, had been living in a  partly built house and his wife had been employed in a garment factory.    
She told police that she had given money to the girl to  redeem her gold chain which had been pawned by the suspect to find money  for drugs and the latter had assaulted the daughter asking for that  money. She said the daughter had been killed in the assault.    

She stated that after returning from work, she inquired  about the daughter and that the suspect told her that she went to see a  friend. However, she did not believe in him and had made a complaint to the  Gampaha Police that her daughter had gone missing from home.   

During investigations, the police arrested the suspect and  questioned to find that the daughter was killed in the assault and her  body was dumped in the toilet pit.   

The preliminary magisterial inquiry was to be held yesterday at the scene.   

Crime Investigation Branch of Gampaha Police is conducting  further investigations on the instructions of HQI Mohan Silva and SSP  Jagath Rohana.