Mother of two clubbed to death for refusing to have an illicit affair

A mother of two who refused to get involved in an illicit affair was clubbed to death by an ex-soldier yesterday at Mirissa, Weligama and soon afterwards the assailant, too, committed suicide by hanging himself inside his house.


Police identified the victim as Rohini Nilmini Kanthi Wimalagunasekera (35) and the ex-soldier as KH Asanka Sanath (39).


Sunday morning, she took her eldest child to the Dhamma School and while carrying her two-and-a-half year old child when the assailant struck her with a pole.


The former soldier was a neighbour of the victim, who lived with his parents.


He had been making advances towards the woman for quite some time, the police said. Unable to bear his advances, she and her husband had complained to the Weligama police. He was arrested and remanded for 14 days.


After being enlarged on bail he threatened to kill her and she had lodged a second complaint with the police.

Chief Inspector slapped by bus driver

The Chief Inspector in charge of administration at the Gampaha police headquarters was slapped by a private bus driver at the Nittambuwa-Kalagedihena police post in view of other policemen last Saturday evening.


Chief Inspector W. L. R. Vitarana dressed in civvies had been proceeding in a private car from Pasyala area to Kalagdihena on the Kandy-Colombo Road when he saw a private bus being driven recklessly. He promptly telephoned the Kalagedihena police post.

The policemen manning the post flagged the speeding bus to stop. The CI who was following the bus too had arrived there.


According to Nittambuwa police the bus driver slapped the CI following a heated argument.

When the suspect driver and the conductor were produced before the Attanagalle Magistrate yesterday, they were remanded till Tuesday.

Two drown in canal

Mahiyangana police last week recovered the body of one of the two persons drowned in the Vienna Canal on Saturday (05).

The victims have been identified as Gunapala alias Kusum (18) and Cyril (24) residents of Wewatta area in Mahiyangana, police said. Navy divers with the assistance of neighbours recovered the body of the 18-year-old victim, police said.

When one of the youths was dragged away by a strong current the other had jumped into the canal to save his life, the witnesses told police, adding that the three wheeler of the second youth, too, had fallen into the canal.

Suspect in children poisoning case remanded

KANDY – A suspect named Delumkotuwegedara Indrani arrested by Panwila police in connection with the death of a three-and-a-half-year old boy who fell sick after eating some biscuits and chocolates given by her, was remanded till July 03 by the Teldeniya Acting Magistrate Sarath Premakumara.


The elder sister of the little boy who died at Madulkele hospital was admitted to Kandy General Hospital when she, too, fell sick after eating the sweets alleged to have been given by the suspect.

The tragedy occurred at Tawalanhenna near Madolkele in the Panwila police area.

The suspect woman was a neighbour of the victims, the police said.

CI Saman Angammana OIC, Panwila police station heads investigations on the directions of senior DIG, H.N.B. Ambanwala, DIG G. B. Peramunne and senior S. P. Gamini Ellepola.

'Short-lived' freedom

Two inmates who fled from the Galle Remand Prison were nabbed within half an hour of their escape by prison officials yesterday.

They had been taken out of their cells to clean the prison premises last week. While taking the garbage bags out of the prison walls to put them in a dump located outside they ran away.

One of the inmates ran towards the Galle Railway Station, while the other bolted in the opposite direction. The jailers who chased behind them managed to capture them within half an hour.

The operation to nab the escaped inmates was led by Chief Jailer A. Ranasinghe under the instructions of Galle Prisons Superintendent J. Karunasena.

Man seeks probe on wife’s death, claims medical negligence

Claiming that the death of his wife was due to criminal negligence on the part of the Nuwara Eliya hospital authorities, a resident of Nuwara Eliya – Thakshita Samarakoon- has called for an investigation.

The deceased, 33-year-old Kumuduni Nayanakanthi, was serving as a management assistant to the Nuwara Eliya Magistrate when she was admitted to the area hospital to deliver her first child on May 30.

The child was born the following day, but the mother’s condition took a turn for the worse following complications arising out of child birth and she was transferred to the Kandy hospital.

At Kandy it was discovered that the patient’s condition was serious and she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).It was also discovered that a germ had entered her body and her right arm had to be amputated.

However despite treatment she underwent Nayankanthi died on June 30.

A complaint made by the husband of the deceased to the police unit of the Kandy hospital, that the death of his wife was caused by negligence on the part of hospital staff.

The Nuwara Eliya Magistrate ordered the Coroner of the Kandy Hospital, Dr. Siv Subramaniyam to hold a post mortem into the death of the woman.

The coroner returned an open verdict and investigations into the cause of death are underway.

Meanwhile the infant is presently receiving treatment at the Welimada hospital (03).

Ponzi man Sakvithi pleading mental illness 

 


Nugegoda Chief Magistrate, Aruna Aluthge, ordered a medical report on fraudster Sakvithi Ranasinghe from the National Institute of Mental Health, Angoda.
 
 


Ranasinghe is presently remanded for embezzling over Rs 3 billion from depositors through the operation of an illegal financial company.
 


Appearing on behalf of Ranasinghe, attorney-at-law Asha Kahawatte observed that the convict was showing signs of mental illness, which was causing him to make all sorts of statements before Court, submitting that this was proof that he was in dire need of treatment.
 


Although at the previous hearing Ranasinghe had complained of ill-treatment in prison, the Superintendent of Welikada Prison produced a letter to the effect that Ranasinghe had refuted the same sentiment at another date when queried by responsible prison authorities in charge of looking into such matters.

Monkeys and deer killed by poisoning 

 


Wildlife officials have voiced concern over the poisoning of deer and monkeys by villagers close to the Koholankala reservoir in Hambantota recently.


According to Hambantota Wildlife officers, even though the carcasses of a few spotted deer and grey langurs were found, it is believed many have died due to poisoning.
 


Environment Lawyer, Jagath Gunewardene, told Ceylon Today that according to Section 53 of the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (FFPO), grey langurs cannot be poisoned.
 


"Under Section 30 of the FFPO the spotted deer is protected and cannot be harmed, injured or killed," Gunewardene noted.


"Due to the prevailing drought animals in the area use the Koholankala reservoir to quench their thirst as many of the water holes have dried up.

Poachers have observed these animals use this reservoir to drink water," Wildlife officers said.
 


They added the poachers have made small water holes close to the reservoir and put poison in the water for the animals to drink, and the carcasses of the deer are then sold to prospective customers.


Wildlife officers are presently monitoring the water of the reservoir to prevent further cases of poisoning.

Highway death: Rider with mystery woman ignored police warning

A police officer told an inquiry into the death of a motorcyclist who had a female pillion rider that the rider ignored warnings and sped along the airport highway and crashed onto a moving car.

Sergeant A.B.S. Perera, who was on duty at the Peliyagoda entry point to the airport highway, told Colombo’s City Coroner Ashroff Rumi that after the rider ignored his orders to stop, police officers in motorcycles to gave chase to him as motorcyclists were not allowed to enter the highway.

The victim was identified as Mahadewage Susantha, 39, a resident of Castle Street in Borella and father of three.

During the chase, the motorcyclist had collided with the rear of a moving car and he and the pillion rider were thrown, sergeant Perera said.Sarath Kumara, the driver of the car, said he was travelling at 80-90 kms per hour when the bike struck his vehicle.

“The incident took place around 10 pm, somewhere in Wattala. The pillion rider landed on the roof of my car. It took about three minutes for me to pull my car to a side. I saw the rider on the road. He was bleeding,” he said.

Mr. Kumara said he took the woman to the Colombo National Hospital.

The widow of the victim, Chandani Nishanthi, 40, told Sunday Times she did not know who the female pillion rider or where her husband was going that particular night with the woman.

The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. The court also inquired into the deaths of two other motorcyclists in different accidents.
 

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