SRI LANKA: SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH 22 YEARS AFTER FIVE PEOPLE WERE SHOT DEAD IN 2000

July 3, 2022:

Six people on 30 June 2022 were sentenced to death after they were convicted of murdering five people in Devinuawara in 2000.
Matara High Court Judge Thamara Thennakoon ordered the death sentences after the six accused were guilty of shooting five people.
Five people were brutally shot dead in 2000, when a group opened fire at their van in Devinuwara.
15 people were arrested over the murders, and five of them were acquitted and released.
During the court of 22 year trial four suspects had died.
The convicted killers are all residents from Devinuwara.