Son in Grade 9 who hanged himself after writing letter saying....
'Reason for death ... is mother!'
A schoolboy of 14 years living in the middle
portion of Kotiyagala Wattha belonging to Bagawantalawa Police area had committed suicide by hanging himself in his house last morning (09).What was seen in a note that he had left behind before death is, 'The reason for my death is .... mother .... I can't bear anymore'. It was reported that he was motivated to commit suicide in this manner because he was sour over advice given to him by his mother.
The victim in this instance is Sudasan Milroy, a schoolboy studying in Grade 9 at St. Mary's Tamil School in Bagawanthalawa. It was learned that he was attending a funeral occasion the day before his death breaking rest and that as a result of an advice given to him by his mother, an argument had taken place. The boy who returned home around seven the following morning had hanged himself from a beam in the bedroom of the house and put an end to his life after his mother had gone to work in the tea estate and his sister had left to school.
The police said that a letter written to the effect saying that the reason for this death was his own mother and it had been left on a side of the room where he committed suicide. Further investigations relating to the incident are underway.
(Information -- Ranjith Rajapaksha)
