Lover slashes girl-friend's neck at Nugegoda Old Kesbewa Road over love conflict

Lover slashes girl-friend's neck at Nugegoda Old Kesbewa Road over love conflict

The dead body of a young female was observed by residents of the neighbourhood around 8 last night with her neck slashed and murdered close to a playground near Suriyamal Mawatha, Old Kesbewa Road, Nugegoda.  

Those around the area having thought that the murder was related to a suspicious incident had informed the 119 Emergency Number saying that an

unidentified female dead body was found by them. A special team had visited the scene concerned to carry out an inquiry into the corpse with the neck slashed, on the information conveyed to police and in the meantime a young man had surrendered to police with a knife smeared with blood admitting that he had killed his girl-friend.

What he had later said was that he had made the girl concerned get on his motor cycle and had approached the playground near Old Kesbewa Road and had gone to the extent of killing her after a verbal clash that took place between the two. He has also added that because of the intrusion of another at that moment it became the root cause of the conflict.

The deceased young lady Priyanka Sankalpani Gunasingha is a resident of Hewessa area, Matugama. The young man who confessed to the killing was taken into police custody and further inquiries are underway.