13 June 2017 :

Five suspects, including three members of the same family, who were found guilty of three separate murders in Vavuniya, were sentenced to death by Vavuniya High Court Judge Balendran Shashimahendran.
A 63-year-old man and his two sons were found guilty of killing a youth in Sundarapuram in 2006. In another incident a 45-year-old woman was found guilty of murdering her husband in Munnariyippu in 2010.
Meanwhile, a youth who was found guilty of killing a woman by stabbing her to death in Shastri Kumankulam in 2008, were also convicted.