SRI LANKA: CHILD KILLER’S APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE REJECTED

in Sri Lanka, Balapitiya High Court Judge Amal Thilakaratne dismissed the appeal of Thomme Hakuru Wimaladasa alias ‘Sakara’ against his death sentence. He was sentenced by the same court in 1993 for murdering Thomme Hakuru Thilakaratne, 6, alias ‘Chuti’, at Dickkala, Yatagala, by cutting his neck on April 18, 1985, over a family dispute.