A suspect has been arrested after six years, over the murder of a woman and her six-month-old child in Vavuniya.
The Vavuniya Police had arrested the suspect yesterday, who is accused of murdering the woman and her child, burning, and burying their bodies at a house in the Muruganoor area in Maradankulam, Vavuniya.
Investigations had been launched into the disappearance of the woman and her child since 2015 after the woman’s relatives had filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission Office in Kilinochchi.
The Vavuniya Divisional Crimes Unit had conducted investigations for nearly three years after which they had identified the suspect and arrested him today.
Preliminary investigations had revealed that the 28-year-old suspect had travelled overseas twice and had returned to Vavuniya, during which he had provided false statements to the Police during interrogations.
However, it had been found that the man had sold the deceased woman’s mobile phone after which he had been taken into custody.
Further investigations had revealed that the man who was is resident of Kondavil, Jaffna had been employed as a contract worker and had befriended the woman from the same area.
The affair had ended in the woman conceiving due to which the two parties had been engaged in constant arguments on several occasions. Six months after the child was born, the suspect had promised the woman’s family that he would marry her and had arrived in Vavuniya on 9th August 2015.
However, as an argument had escalated between the couple on the same day, the man had murdered the woman and the child by strangling them and had set fire to their bodies, after which he had buried them in the yard of the house.
The deceased has been identified as a 20-year-old woman from the Kondavil area in Jaffna, and her six-month-old infant.
The Vavuniya Police will present facts to the courts, while the suspect is to be produced in courts and a magisterial inquiry is to be conducted at the site where the incident had occurred. (NewsWire)