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| Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
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Doctor suspected of killing wife, son Crime Sunday by Jayampathy Jayasinghe Last week's double murder in Kandy borders on tragidrama where a young doctor goes berserk and kills his doctor wife and their infant son in a rage that has cast a pall in the hill country. Their's was a story book romance where a boy and a girl meet for the first time while studying at a foreign university, then fall in love and marry after passing out as doctors. On their return to Sri Lanka both husband and wife join Sri Lanka Army as physicians. After some time the husband resigns from the army and joins a base hospital in an upcountry town. Every week or so he used to travel to Kandy to be with his wife and the infant son at her father's residence at Lady Gorden's drive. The couple often led a busy life mixing professional work with their daily mundane tasks. But what on earth made the husband go berserk all of a sudden, butcher his wife and his six-month-old infant in a savage and barbaric way. The horrific incident happened nowhere else but in her own secluded bedroom while she was tending her infant. The husband goes into a devilish spell after returning home presumably after a heated argument with his wife. He then stabs her with a knife more than 26 times ripping her flesh apart like that of a cannibal. She bleeds to death as no one is around the house to rush her to hospital. The husband did not leave it at that. In a rage he goes and picks up his six month old infant son from a cot and stabs him to death snatching away his precious life. Nobody knows for certain the motive of killing his wife and the infant in this bizarre manner. With blood stained clothes the doctor escaped by driving off in his car to Mawanella pretending not to know anything about the horrible massacre. At Mawanella he stopped his car near a shop, bought new clothes and changed his attire. He then drives out of town pulls up his car alongside a shrub jungle and throws away the blood stained knife. According to police, he was a disillusioned man as he could not achieve much in life. His dream was to become a specialist to gain recognition and respect in society. But there were constant quarrels between the husband and the wife as they were in a collision path where their careers were concerned. The husband's priority was to pursue higher studies but his wife had a different outlook in life. She opted for a domestic life and wanted to raise a family. The man reviled the idea of having a child in the first place as it would interfere with his future plans. With frequent quarrels taking place every now and then, their antagonism gradually boiled into some kind of hatred. "It was a horrifying and gruesome murder committed in Kandy town in recent times," a senior police officer said. All this took place while the woman doctor's father and her brother, a planter by profession were away at Panwilla. Her father and her brother returned home around 3.30.p.m. that day and rang the door bell. It was rather strange that no one came forward to open the gate. Her father had to push down the gate and the front door to get inside the house. When he entered the room he simply could not believe what he saw, the ghastly scene of his daughter lying in a pool of blood on the floor of her bedroom. The body of her infant son too was found lying next to her body hacked to death. The ghastly murder took place on September 17. When it was reported to the Kandy police, Chief Inspector (CI) Gurusinghe of the Kandy Special investigation unit and a team of police officers rushed to the residence that evening. It was a three storeyed building. The third floor of the house was occupied by parents of the deceased doctor. She and her husband occupied the first two floors with their infant son. When Chief Inspector Gurusinghe entered the ground floor he found the body of the slain doctor lying in a pool of blood. She was scantily dressed with blood soaked clothes as if some body had stabbed her while trying to rape her. Her face was turned towards the ceiling. The body of her infant son was found lying beside her. Inspector Gurusinghe's first impression was that the doctor was stabbed to death by a rapist but on close examination he found that it wasn't so. Experience had taught the hard boiled cop that some one had mutilated her body and that of the infant. If a rapist had killed her why should an innocent infant of six months be killed and for what reason, the Inspector Gurusinghe thought. The whole house was ransacked to give the impression that some criminals had committed the dastardly crime. Meanwhile the father quite unaware that his doctor-son-in-law, had committed the heinous crime had innocently told him to return home quickly. The son-in-law had replied that he was on his way home and would be there soon. No sooner he arrived around 6.30.p.m. the father had walked up to his car and informed him about the tragedy. The doctor as if he was in a state of shock had got into his car and driven away. But before he could proceed far Chief Inspector Gurusinghe's party waiting in ambush arrested the doctor. The doctor whilst being grilled had told police what exactly took place. The police later recovered the blood stained knife thrown near a bush at Mawanella. The Police party led by CI. Gurusinghe and SI. S. Chintaka, IP Farook, PS, 10509 Rodrigue, PC 2139 Bambaradeniya and PC 9040 Ismail were directed By DIG Central Province Nimal Mediweka and SSP, Gamini Seneviratne. |
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