INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The grandfather of the 05-year-old boy whose body was found with cut injuries at a construction site in Mulleriyawa has been granted bail
after being produced before the Alutkade No
300,000 each, and was also ordered to appear before the courts on June 15, 2023.Police last night (June 10) arrested the grandfather of the
05-year-old boy, who was recently found dead at a construction site in Mulleriyawa, over failure to provide necessary protection for the
child.The child, who had suffered cut wounds initially believed to have been caused by the pieces of a broken glass bottle, was found dead
on Thursday evening (June 08) at a construction site in the Mulleriyawa police division.The investigators observed that the five-year-old,
Jonathan Mark Fonseka, had died due to excessive bleeding
Meanwhile, pieces of a broken glass bottle were also found approximately 4 feet away from the body
But this raised suspicions as the investigators could not find any blood stains between the body and the glass shards.Later, a grass cutter
the interrogations, the suspect admitted that the boy had not, in fact, died from cut wounds caused by the shards of a broken glass bottle
as initially suspected.In his confession, the 51-year-old grass cutter confessed that the child had died after the blades of his
grass-cutting machine had struck the boy accidentally
In a panic, the suspect went on to place the shards of a broken glass bottle near the body, to make it look like the apparent cause of the
critical injuries suffered by the child were due to the broken glass bottle.The grass cutter was placed remanded until June 15, after being
produced before the courts yesterday.It was reported that the child had been looked after by his grandparents during the daytime, while his
mother, who is separated from her husband, was away at work
However, the grandfather, who went out to get some work done on the day of the incident, had left the child with the suspect who was working
at the construction site where he served as a caretaker.Meanwhile, the body of the child was handed over to the parents following the
completion of the post-mortem examination at the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Mulleriyawa.The final rites of the child are scheduled
