SSP JAYAKODY UNFAZED BY DEATH THREAT

April 25, 2013

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in charge of Ratnapura Division, Prishantha Jayakody who had received a threatening phone call, which was traced back to a payphone booth in Galle, says he remains unbowed and unafraid.  

The former Police Spokesman said the threat against his life and his family’s was made following a raid on a karaoke bar operating in Ratnapura last Saturday and therefore suspects a connection between the bar and the threat call.

Jayakody said he suspects that certain higher-ups are connected to the karaoke bar in question.

It has been reported that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched investigations into the death threat

Two PCs, Vice Chairman hospitalised

THURSDAY, 25 APRIL 2013

Two policemen and the Buttala Pradeshiya Sabha Vice Chairman were hospitalised after they were injured in an attack last night in Buttala, police said.

The police personnel are alleged to have been attacked by some of the occupants who were in the Vice Chairman’s vehicle which had sped away after ignoring a police order to stop.

The vehicle was later stopped and it was when the two police men were reportedly searching the vehicle that they were attacked.