Mentally disabled youth hacked to death

19 November 2012 08:04 am

A 22-year-old mentally disabled youth has been hacked to death at Diwulpitiya in Borelesgamuwa over a personal dispute, the police media spokesman Prashantha Jayakody said.

He said investigations had revealed that as a result of a dispute among some three-wheel drivers the assailants had come to the house in the early hours of the morning where the 22-year-old and his brother, who is also a three-wheel driver, were asleep.

SSP Jayakody alleged that when being questioned the four suspects had said they had come in search of the three-wheel driver but in a case of mistaken identity had hacked to death the mentally disabled youth. Police had also recovered the sharp instrument suspected to have been used in the killing. (Sanath Desmond)