SRI LANKA APPEAL COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE

the Appeal Court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, set aside the murder conviction and death sentence of a brother and sister who had stabbed a neighbour to death. The court substituted a conviction of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on the basis of a sudden fight and imposed a sentence of 1 years RI on the brother, K. Navapala Chandran of Balangoda and 10 years RI on the sister, K. Mangaleswari. The Court observed that although the capability of the sister was less, it could not disregard that being a female she had given the knife to her brother.