VIDEO: SC rejects appeal made by Angulana double murder convicts
April 2, 2014 11:01 am
The Supreme
Court today (April 2) rejected the appeal brought forward by the four policemen
sentenced to death over the murder of two youths in Angulana back in 2009.
The four
convicts had appealed to the Supreme Court requesting that their death
sentences be reduced to a more lenient sentence.
The appeal was
brought before a five-member bench today which decided to reject the appeal.
The bench comprised Shiranee Thilakawardena, Chandra Ekanayake, Sathya Hettige,
Priyasad Depp and Eva Wanasundera.
Former OIC K.W.
Newton, Police constables Galhenage Kumarasiri, Dhammika Jayaratne and Civil
Defence Force member Janapriya Senaratne were found guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt for the dual murder of Dinesh Tharanga Fernando and Dhanushka Aponso on
August 12, 2009.
