(COLOMBO) – The Sri Lankan police on Saturday sought public assistance to arrest an alleged rapist-murderer that broke custody from a hospital in the country’s north.
The suspect Kandaiah Vijayan alias Abdul Rahman escaped from his handlers while being treated at the Government General Hospital Vavuniya located some 265 kilometres from the commercial capital of Colombo.
The suspect was being held in custody in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl on February 15 this year.
The suspect was arrested after the girl’s grandmother lodged a complaint with the local police that her granddaughter had gone missing from their village.
Subsequently, police found the half-naked body of the missing girl approximately 300 metres away from her home.
