(UTV|COLOMBO) – An appeal filed by the convicts in the murder of British national Khuram Shaikh and rape of his Russian girlfriend, is to be heard on 01 March, 2019.
The former Chairman of the Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha, Sampath Vidanapathirana and four others, were sentenced to twenty-years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) over the murder in July, 2014.
Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Rochdale, was shot and stabbed at a hotel while on holiday in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day in 2011. He was killed when he tried to break up a fight.
Vidanapathirana was jailed for twenty-years for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, along with three other men.
Lahiru Kelum, U. Sama Deshapriya, and Praneeth Chathuranga who were convicted of Mr. Shaikh’s killing with the former Council Leader were all also found guilty of raping a woman.
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