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YOUNG SRI LANKAN TAMIL COUPLE
ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF THEIR TWO CHILDREN AND GRIEVOUSLY HURTING THE
OTHER BY CUTTING THEIR THROATS
By Walter Jayawardhana
A young Sri lankan Tamil couple were arrested by the New Scotland yard
police for the suspected murder of their five year old boy , four year
old girl and grievous hurt of a six month old baby girl , by cutting
their throats the police said.
“The matter is being investigated by our child abuse unit and not
by the terrorist unit right at the moment,” a spokesman for the
New Scotland Yard said.
He said the woman was also treated for minor injuries and both of them
are in the custody of different police stations until the investigations
are over and charges are framed. They would be eventually produced in
a court of law after that .
The Police refused to divulge the names of the deceased until proper
identification and names of the suspects until the charges are framed.
But other sources revealed that the couple is Navarajah (39) and Sasikala
Navaneethan (35) who moved into the neighbourhood about half an year
ago.
The attack on the children and the injury of the woman allegedly took
place in a house in South London at Park Road in Carshalton, the Police
said. The condition of the baby girl who was admitted to a hospital
remained in a serious and critical condition the Police added.
The mother and the father are being questioned by the murder squad and
the child abuse unit of the new Scotland Yard now, the Police said.
The Police and ambulances reached the murder scene at 10.30 p.m. May
30, the neighbours said. The paramedics who came in several ambulances
to the scene put them in the vehicles and were seen attempting to resuscitate
the injured children before being removing them to the hospital , the
neighbours said.
But the two older children aged five and four died within 15 minutes
of each other shortly before midnight, Friday. Sources said their throats
had been cut.
Neighbours said the tragedy occurred at the time the man who ran a news
agency and a grocery stores at nearby Coulsdon returned home late at
night on Friday.
Neighbours in the usually placid town said the deceased children were
very playful and sweet and talked to them while playing outside their
house.
The immediate neighbour of the ill fated family, Dhruba Sengupta (66)
a retired forensic lab technician said , “I have been living here
for more than twenty years and I have never known anything like this”Other
neighbours said that despite great tradgedy that had occurred both,
the man and the woman were calm and not screaming or crying.
Other neighbours said , after the incident a group of Sri Lankan Tamils
arrived at the scene and told them that they used to live in the house
but moved out because of problems. When police came and spoke to them
they started screaiming and crying, they said.
The 300,000 Pound four-bedroomed house was taped off while forensic
experts were collecting evidence inside.
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