TID asks witness to implicate a senior army officer in the assasination of senior journalist

By Ananda Weerasuriya | Daily Mirror
.............................................................................................................................................................................................

Making an explosive statement in open court before the Mount Lavinia Magistrate, a suspect former Army Intelligence Unit member, said today that the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) promised to make him a state witness, provide security and a foreign job if he had implicated a senior Army Officer to have been involved in the assassination of the Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga.

The former Army Intelligence member, Kandegedara Priyawansa who had been arrested and detained for alleged involvement in the assassination of the Sunday Leader Editor made this statement when the inquiry was taken up before the Mount Lavinia Chief Magistrate Ms. Nirosha Fernando.

“The TID promised to make me a witness and offered a foreign job if I implicated a senior army officer for the murder”, he said

The Army Intelligence member and a garage owner in Nuwara Eliya, Pichchei Jesudasan are in custody for allegedly being involved in the assassination of the newspaper editor.

© Daily Mirror