SRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PAVEMENT HAWKER MURDER

in Sri Lanka, Badulla High Court Judge P Wickremesighe sentenced Ahangama Vidanelage Jayasinha, alias Hitchchiputha, to death for murdering pavement hawker H.M. Sudath on December 30, 1999. The victim's body was found after he had spent all night at a gambling den with Ahangama, who witnesses said had lost all his money.