Sri Lankan President exonerates a wealthy death row detainee in killing a young Swedish

2024-07-07 15:19:28

Sri Lanka's active president has caused a shock by exonerating a death row detainee who killed a Swedish young person in 2005.

Jude Jayamaha, from a well off, prominent family, strolled free from jail following President Maithripala Sirisena's profoundly abnormal choice.

The unfortunate casualty's sister, Caroline Jonsson, said the killer had demonstrated no regret. Sri Lankans scrutinized the move on the web. She stated that Mr Sirisena isn't remaining in next Saturday's presidential political race. He neglected to get support from his very own gathering to challenge the survey.

President Sirisena reported a month ago he was thinking about a solicitation to give Jayamaha an exculpation, saying he had carried on well in jail and had been imprisoned matured 19 "over an episode of anxiety".

Injured individual Yvonne Jonsson, a double national whose mother was Sri Lankan, was pounded the life out of in the stairwell of the loft square where her family was living in the capital Colombo in 2005 after a previous contention with Jayamaha.

During the preliminary, the court heard that her skull had been broken into 64 pieces.

Jayamaha was at first given 12 years in jail. His ensuing intrigue against his prison term was dismissed and he was condemned to death rather, a sentence maintained by the Supreme Court in 2014.

A month ago Yvonne Jonsson's sister Caroline said the family had been troubled to discover that Mr. Sirisena was thinking about an exculpation.

"We've endeavored to reconstruct our lives and here we are, going into 15 years, as yet battling for equity," she wrote in a Facebook post.

"Tragically, we currently need to set ourselves up for the most noticeably awful conceivable result, the exoneration of my sister's killer."

She expelled Mr Sirisena's characterisation of her sister's homicide, saying it was a planned demonstration and he had sat tight for her outside the family's loft before assaulting her.

Numerous Sri Lankans took to internet based life to denounce the exculpation.

Monika Walker is a senior journalist specializing in regional and international politics, offering in-depth analysis on governance, diplomacy, and key global developments. With a degree in International Journalism, she is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices through factual reporting. She also covers world news across every genre, providing readers with balanced and timely insights that connect the Caribbean to global conversations.