A 39-year-old woman, from Boralesgamuwa, surrendered to the Panadura Magistrate’s Court through a lawyer yesterday for killing her 40-year-old paramour, identified as H N Indrajith Pradeep Narayana, of No. 805, High Level Road, Gangodawila.
According to the woman’s confession her lover tried to strangle her with her bra, but she turned tables on him and strangled him instead with the undergarment.
The Panadura South police patrol found Indrajith’s body slumped on the driver’s seat of his car parked near the Salgado Bakery, on the Sri Maha Vihara Road.
The post mortem revealed that he had been strangled to death with a strap like device.
The 39-year-old mother of one, who had been having an illicit affair for the past four years with Indrajith, after surrendering to the Court, made a statement to the police.
In her statement, she confessed that she had an illicit affair with Indrajith, who came to the place where the incident happened on Monday night.
She had said that he tried to strangle her following a dispute between them, but had killed him gaining control of the situation.
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