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The interrogation of suspect Nimal Wickremesinghe, alias ‘Grease Gamini’ or ‘Grease Yaka’ has revealed that he is of limited intelligence.
The police have also established firmly that four-year-old Keshani Bandara Wijekoon had not been abducted for any ritual sacrifice. A medical examination conducted on her at the Kurunegala hospital has revealed that she has not been harmed.
A few weeks earlier he had made three unsuccessful attempts to abduct three different girls from their homes in the Polgahawela area.
A fast sealing gum recovered from the suspect’s possession had been kept by him to seal the child’s lips in case she started to scream, investigators said.
Distantly related to the victim, the suspect had been eking out a living by working as a labourer.
Keshani’s father makes sweetmeats and sells them to retailers. He uses his trishaw to distribute them to retailers and Keshani used to accompany him on those sales trips.
The suspect had seen her during such trips, police said.
He put his plan into action in the early hours of September 09 by cycling to their home and cutting through a polythene sheet that served as one of the outwalls of the house. He took the sleeping child on his bicycle to a cave in a jungle at Wellawa, where he held her and fed her by stealing food from houses in the surroundings. The child slept on the bare granite floor of the cave.
Realising he could not go on that way, last Thursday the suspect took the child to his home at Kumbukgate and asked his mother to keep her there until she
He also told the mother that, if anyone inquired about the child, to say that they were raising her. The child was kept in a dark room under a bed, according to the investigators.
Nimal told his interrogators that he had not been aware that the whole country was looking for the abducted child.
The suspect’s elder brother engaged in brick making at Kumbukgate is living close to the suspect’s house. Last Friday visited his mother who told him about the abducted child. He recognized the victim and tried to take her to the police, but the suspect attempted to attack him with a knife. He had managed to chase away the suspect and take the child to a boutique in front of their house.
After explaining the matters to the boutique keeper, the brother asked him to inform the police and the latter alerted the police emergency.
Within minutes police teams who had been combing the region came to the scene. The suspect’s mother, too, was immediately taken into custody for aiding and abetting the crime. In the commotion the suspect took to his heels.
He was, however, caught around noon on Saturday by the residents of the area as he was trying to flee on his bicycle. The villagers assaulted him brutally before he was rescued by the Wellawa police headed by OIC Inspector Anura Gunawardena.
Immediately handed over to the CID for further investigation the suspect was due to be produced before a Magistrate yesterday
Abductor visited girl’s house previous day
The man who allegedly abducted four-year-old Pamara Keshani Bandara at Nikadalupotha, Ambakolawewa last Tuesday had visited the child’s house the previous morning and had inquired from her mother whether there was a cadjan thatched house in the area.
By Hemantha Randunu
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