Kosgoda Tharaka's mother who contested on Alliance ticket ... hides in toilet when police arrives!

Kosgoda Tharaka's mother who contested on Alliance ticket ...

hides in toilet when police arrives!

A woman who is supposed to the person under whose name the motor bicycle used in the Matara jewellery shop robbery has been registered and is known to be a resident of Kosgoda, Nanathota has been taken into custody on Friday (22). Police say that she has been identified as the mother of the main suspect in the crime, Kosgoda Tharaka.

It has been confirmed by police inquiries that one of the motor cycles used in the robbery of Matara

Nileka Jewellery shop last Friday (22) in fact was confirmed as belonging to this woman-suspect. A spokesman of Kosgoda police mentioned that it was confirmed across Motor Traffic Department. Kosgoda police say that the suspect-female under reference is the mother of the main suspect in the robbery, underground leader Dharmakirthi Tharaka Perera alias Kosgoda Tharaka and his brother Madhuka Nirmal Perera Wijeseykera (22) living in Nanathota, Kosgoda.

Both the above had sustained serious injuries from police firing and at present are undergoing treatment at Karapitiya Basic Hospital at the intensive care unit. Police had gone to arrest the mother of Kosgoda Tharaka in the evening around 3 o'clock on Friday (22) evening. The moment she has set eyes on the police she had darted inside the house and had closed the door. Though police had tried in vain to speak to her, she has not opened the door, police say. Later the door had been broken down by police. At that moment she had rushed to the bathroom in the house and locked it up. Police say that she was apprehended after breaking down the bathroom door. 

This woman-suspect who had been a strong supporter of the SLFP had contested Nanathota provincial division at the Balapitiya provincial council elections held on 10th February 2018 and had lost. This suspect having been produced before Balapitiya additional magistrate day-before-yesterday (23) Mr. Z.P.M. Liyakan was ordered to be remanded till 4th July. It was Agampodi Janaki Priyanthi de Soysa (51) resident at Nanathota Palatha, Kosgoda who was so remanded.

Balapitiya -- Damsiri Liyanage; Hikkaduwa -- Sanjeewa Manikkuwawadu