A woman who had been in hiding for 35 years after committing a murder and was sentenced to death was arrested by the Homicide and Organized Crime Investigation Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department.
In 1989, the Borella Police had launched an investigation regarding the murder of a Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) quality inspector in Wellawa, Athurugiriya.
It is according to a complaint made by the wife of the deceased person. Accordingly, following investigations, the police arrested a couple living in Wellawa, Athurugiriya
It was revealed that the then 30-year-old woman who was arrested had worked as an English stenographer at CEB and allegedly had an affair with the deceased person.
Investigations have revealed that after the relevant relationship was revealed to her husband, the woman called her lover to her home in Wellawa, Athurugiriya.
There, along with her husband, she had reportedly killed her lover, chopped him up and put him in a barrel and dumped him in a well, the police said.
As a result, the husband and wife were remanded for 6 months and later released on bail. The police said that the couple who were freed later disappeared.
Accordingly, the couple was sentenced to death in 2019 after the trial which was conducted without them. However, no police has been able to find the couple who committed the murder.
In such a background, the Criminal Investigation Department had received information that the woman who committed the murder was hiding in a rented house in the Bandaragama Pamunugama area.
Accordingly, the investigating officers arrested her yesterday (09). At present, the concerned woman, who is a mother of one child, is 64 years old.
The police said that the couple has been hiding from their relatives in different parts of the island for the past 35 years after being granted bail.
The concerned woman has said that they lived separately out of fear of being caught by the police. However, her husband has not been arrested yet.
The suspect was produced before the Homagama Magistrate’s Court on Saturday (10) and was remanded until the 12th.