21 May 2018 :

The Colombo High Court imposed death sentence on three persons convicted of stabbing a person to death in Nawagampura, Colombo in 2001 November 05.
The Attorney General has filed the case accusing the suspects to have killed a person during a heated argument which took place after liquor consumption. 
Colombo High Court Judge Vikum Kaluarchchi who made the verdict after a long trial ruled that the allegations against the defendants have been proved without a doubt.
Accordingly, the Judge ordered the defendants to be sentenced to death.