Body of missing youth from Kuliyapitiya found in Madampe

Police said the body of the youth from Kuliyapitiya who went missing on April 22 after visiting the home of his girlfriend, has been discovered in the Madampe area.

The body of the youth has been found torched and dumped in a forest area in Madampe this morning (07), police said. It has been confirmed that the youth had been murdered. 

Police had launched an investigation after the disappearance of the youth, Susitha Jayawansa, 31, a resident of Kabalewa area in Kuliyapitiya, was reported on April 22 and he was last seen visiting his girlfriend’s house following a phone call received from her father.

Police said that it was later uncovered that the youth had been assaulted by his girlfriend’s father, and two other individuals identified as masons.

Accordingly, the two masons who were later arrested had confessed to the police that the father of the girl had said that the youth in question should be taken to the house of a former Provincial Council member living in the area.

Following the incident, it was reported that the main suspect and his wife, the girlfriend of the missing youth and the two sons of the main suspect, as well as the main suspect’s sister and her husband, have left their homes and fled the area.

However, the main suspect in the disappearance of a youth had surrendered to the court yesterday (06) through his attorneys.

Kuliyapitiya Magistrate Randika Lakmal later ordered the release of the suspect, Sujith Fernando who is also known as ‘Singithi’, on two personal bails of Rs. 500,000 each.