Mother beaten to death after trying to stop son who attempted to sell the house TV to buy drugs.

The drug menace has unfortunately claimed the life of yet another innocent mother. A tragic incident has been reported from the Hekitta area, which falls under the Wattala Police Division, where a mother succumbed to a brutal assault by her own son when she tried to prevent him from taking the television set from their home to sell for drugs.

The victim of this tragedy was a fifty-eight-year-old woman named Susila de Silva, residing in the Hekitta area. Her twenty-nine-year-old son had attempted to forcibly take the television set from their home with the intention of selling it to obtain money for drugs. When the mother intervened to prevent her son from doing this, he severely assaulted her.

Seriously injured by her son's assault, she was admitted to Ragama General Hospital and was receiving treatment in its Intensive Care Unit. However, after a battle between life and death, she breathed her last on the morning of the 16th. Following the post-mortem examination, the body was ordered to be handed over to her relatives.

The suspect son involved in this incident was already in remand custody on charges of assaulting and injuring his mother. However, with the mother's death, he was again produced before the Wattala Magistrate's Court on the afternoon of the 16th under murder charges, and the suspect was ordered to be remanded for a period of 14 days.

Wattala Police have launched further investigations into this incident. Under the instructions of Wattala Police Station OIC, Chief Police Inspector Prasanna Jayalath, and the supervision of Crime Investigation Division OIC, Police Inspector Rohana Nandasiri, officers including Police Inspector Madhuranga, Police Sergeant Wasantha (48908), and Police Constable Ranaweera (94046) are conducting the initial investigations.