The Colombo High Court has sentenced to death underworld figure SF Sarath for shooting and killing a person in Borella in 2014.
Following a lengthy trial, Colombo High Court Judge Navaratne Marasinghe sentenced K.M. Sarath Bandara to death.
The judge further acquitted three other accused, including Chaminda Ravi Jayanath alias Dematagoda Chaminda, and ordered them to be released from the case.
A case was filed against the four accused on charges of having shot dead an individual identified as Hettiarachchige Duminda inside a salon in the Wanathamulla area in Borella on 01 August 2014. (Newswire)