Hotelier’s Killing: SSP, IP arrested

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Jaffna Division SSP W. P. Wimalasena was arrested today on charges of distorting the investigation into the killing of the ‘Biyagama Village Hotel’ owner in Dompe in 2012 and attempting to protect the deceased’s son who has been identified has the assailant.

Kosgoda Police Inspector Mahesh Ananda was also arrested for conniving in the distortion of the investigation process.

Police said these two officers, who were attached to the Special Task Force during the time of the killing, had provided explosives to the hotel owner’s son to be placed near the home of another youth with the intention of setting him up for the crime.

“The two officers will be produced in the Pugoda Magistrate’s Court on charges of supplying explosives to the assailant,” Police said.
The hotel owner Bernard Jayaratne (65) was hacked to death on February 20, 2012 in Dompe. (Lahiru Pothmulla)

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