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Church grenade suspect doc gives confidential statement

27 Jan 2022

  • Dr. Shirley Herath provides two-hour closed-door statement to Colombo Add’l. Magistrate
The retired doctor who is currently detained in connection with the incident of a hand grenade being found at the All Saints’ Church in Borella, made a two-hour confidential statement before Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya yesterday (26). The suspect, Dr. Shirley Herath, a retired doctor, was recently arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and is currently detained on a detention order (DO). He had made the above-mentioned confidential statement in court regarding the incident.  Earlier, a 65-year-old suspect who was arrested in the Panamura area in Embilipitiya in connection with the same incident, also made a confidential statement in court. The said doctor was arrested by the CCD on information revealed by the suspect arrested in Panamura. Meanwhile, the son of the retired doctor who was arrested in connection with the discovery of the hand grenade, Oshala Herath, recently alleged that the arrest of his father was baseless and was carried out at the behest of the Police. Addressing a media briefing on 19 January, he said that the Police had made a number of contradictory statements about the suspect’s (his father) involvement in the said incident and that his family had now been victimised. A hand grenade was found in the premises of the All Saints’ Church on Ananda Rajakaruna Mawatha opposite the Welikada Prison in Borella at around 4.40 p.m. on 11 January. The hand grenade was discovered following a tip-off received by the Police and it was later defused by the Police Special Task Force. Meanwhile, President’s Counsel Rienzie Arsekularatne, appearing on behalf of three suspects who were earlier arrested in connection with the incident – including Francis Munindran, the sacristan of the said church, on 25 January claimed in court that the manner in which the investigation into the said incident is being carried out by the CCD is flawed. He had further told the court that this flawed investigation had led to three innocent people being arrested and detained by the Police without properly investigating what had happened, and that the relevant closed circuit television (CCTV) camera footage would be submitted to the court in order to uncover the true information related to the incident. Thus, he said that they could not trust the investigations being carried out by the CCD into the incident, and therefore requested the court to direct Inspector General of Police Chandana D. Wickramaratne to withdraw the investigation from the CCD and to transfer it to another division. Subsequently, Additional Magistrate Jayasuriya had ordered the CCD to complete the investigation into the incident and to report to the court on its progress. The Additional Magistrate had also ordered the CCD to present the progress of the investigations into the suspects who are being held on DOs in connection with the incident on 2 February.

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