Seya's murderer, father or Kondaya's brother?
Verdict today
The DNA evidence which inquires into as to whether Seya Sandewmi of Kotadeniyawa who was brutally mudered causing a sensation was committed by her own father or Kondaya's brother Saman Jayalath is expected to be produced in courts today.
As such, it would be finally decided upon today as to who is responsible for the abuse and murder. The police had mentioned that after the child Seya was molested and had subsequently been murdered after having molested her cruelly by Saman Jayalath he had been trying to transfer the crime on to his brother Kondaya and thus make his getaway. It was also said that Saman had confessed that he carried out the murder. Whatever it is, until the technical evidence is confirmed, it is not possible to name the genuine murderer.
The individual Saman Jayalath was someone who had been imprisoned for a period close upon 6 years regarding various criminal offences. Though it was Saman Jayalath the brother of Kondaya it is who was taken into custody initially by the Criminal Investigation Department over the Seya murder incident, he had very cleverly set up a plan to involve his stupid type of brother in the murder. Since Kondaya at that time had been away from the house and because of the situation where he had tried to escape when the police were on his tracks, the external environment too had motivated the police to suspect him as the murderer.
Whatever it is, the news that spread around the village said that the two of them were those who had an abnormal behavioural pattern which had gone far as exhuming the dead body of an attractive young girl and then molest her. As those acts could not be proved, they were left aside as mere rumours. The police suspected that Saman Jayalath had been motivated into committing this offence for the reason that he suffered the impact of broken marriages and was also suffering from serious sexual pressure and further the police said that he had jumped into the room and after kidnapping Seya, had later abused her after which she was killed.
Right at the start during the first few days of this incident it was Seya's father who came into suspicion. The reason for it is that at the time he had been serving as a school teacher his name was blemished for having assisted another teacher for an act of scandal. For that very reason he had been dismissed from his position as a school teacher and from recent times he had been employed in the hiring business. In order to free himself from this situation of allegations being pinned on him he addressed the newspapers and had gone to the extent of volunteering to offer himself for a DNA examination. What would come to light at courts today is its final outcome.