Foreign couple sentenced to death Murder of child and maid

The Colombo High Court yesterday sentenced to death a Ukrainian couple found guilty of a double murder committed in 2010.

They murdered an eight-year-old child and a housemaid at Rajagiriya on February 23, 2010.

High Court Trial-at-Bar Judges Devika de Livera Tennakoon and Wimal Nambuwasam said that the prosecution had proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused Mashour Eugene and Yanna Brishyana indicted with the murder of child Victoria Kim and housemaid Daisy Manohari were guilty.

When the death sentence was read out, Yanna Brishyana appealed to the court to have her executed immediately instead of sending her to prison.

By Samantha Illeperuma
Source: The Island