Former Army Staff Sergeant R.M. Sunil Ratnayake who was convicted and sentenced to death for the Mirusuvil murder case of 2000 has been released from Welikada Prison after he received a Presidential Clemency.
R.M. Sunil Ratnayake, a staff sergeant attached to Sri Lanka Army was sentenced to death by Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar bench on June 25, 2015 after he was found guilty of murdering eight civilians at Mirusuvil in Jaffna on December 19, 2000.
On November 27, 2002, the Attorney General indicted five accused on 19 charges in the murder of eight civilians in Mirusuvil of the Jaffna peninsula before a High Court at Trial-at-Bar in Colombo. The Trial-at-Bar bench found former Staff Sergeant R.M. Sunil Ratnayake guilty of multiple counts including murder.
Meanwhile, on May 20, 2017, a Supreme Court five-judge-bench had also unanimously affirmed the conviction and the death sentence imposed on the former army staff sergeant regarding this incident.
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