Killed mother because she didn't give money to buy Avurudu gift for girl friend

Killed mother because she didn't give money to buy Avurudu gift for girl friend

- 18 year old Kahawatta Chandrani's son confesses

Mrs. Chandrani Swarnalatha (39) of Kotakethana, Kahawatta was murdered recently by her 18 year

old son who was in the house at that time; he has now admitted in the confession he has made to the police. He had said that he was in love with a girl and that his mother was against it and that because his mother had refused to give him money when he asked her money to buy clothes for his girl on which occasion he had lost his temper and committed this murder. Previously what he had told police was that he is not aware of his mother's disappearance from home and that he was asleep at that time. When the dead body was found he had begun weeping. However, as a result of coming to understand that the piece of cloth in which the dead body was wrapped belonged to those in the house and also because of the suspected behaviour of the murderer-son at the funeral, the police took steps to further interrogate him and he had revealed everything after he was taken into custody yesterday.

Kushan Mahesh the 18 year old murderer who had joined a youth brigade after his Ordinary Level Examination was a person who would come back home only at the end of the week and had not maintained any strong bond of relationship with the home. He was the second son of the deceased woman.

On the day the fatal incident took place, though it was said that he had gone to sleep at 8 in the night, police investigations confirm that he had kept on sending sms messages and carrying on a dialogue with his lover across his mobile phone until 10 in the night. Though he was questioned on this point, he had kept on saying that he went to sleep at 8 that night.

According to what the suspect says, when he was talking to his girl friend on the road one day, the elder brother in his family had seen it and conveyed the news to his mother. The mother had continued reprimanding him over that matter and the issue had lasted for some days. He had also asked for the sum of Rs. 3000 from the mother to buy clothes for his lover for the coming Sinhala New Year. It was on the night of that day (4) that Mrs. Chandrani was murdered. On one occasion there had been an exchange of words between the mother and the suspect and he had pushed down the mother at that point. Mrs. Chandrani had collapsed on the floor and had lost her consciousness in the process. He had then thought that the mother had died. The fear that he would be accused of the murder dawned on him and he had thought that if he was to hide the body similar to the procedure imitating previous murder-cases in Kahawatta he would be able to escape. It was after that he had aimed blows at the mother's head from the machette in the house with the intention of misleading others to believe that the murder was committed by somebody else.

Subsequently he had spilled the blood all over the house as well as the compound of the house and then inserted her head into a shopping bag and taken the dead body in the night to the lake which was about 500 metres away from the house and dumped it there. Since that particular night was the day following Poya Day and as the moon was full, his task had become easy. Also, as there had been a funeral in the village that day and everybody had rocked to that house, he was to face obstacles in the minimum. Later, he had hidden the sarong he was wearing and had come home and slept.

Even on the day his mother's funeral activities were taking place he had comported himself in somewhat of a bewildered manner. At the time the dead body was buried, he had cried with deep sorrow and his friends had to use great effort to control him.

The suspect is expected to be produced before courts today (10).