{"id":113390,"date":"2013-11-04T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113390"},"modified":"2013-11-08T12:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:26:39","slug":"herman-granted-bail-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/herman-granted-bail-as-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Granted Bail As Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Guneratne who was arrested in connection with shooting a firearm into the crowd during the UNP&#8217;s internal clashes on in Matara on 5 October was granted bail by the Matara High Court today, as Colombo Telegraph <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/herman-to-get-bail-on-monday-charges-against-him-changed-to-self-defense\/\">accurately predicted<\/a><\/span> in its report on Saturday (2).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111006\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pro-ranil-suspects-released-in-matara-no-show-herman-off-to-singapore-soon\/herman-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111006\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-111006\" title=\"Herman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Herman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Herman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Herman-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Matara High Court granted Guneratne bail after the Magistrate&#8217;s Court denied the bail request, Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<p>Guneratne is likely to travel to Singapore for medical treatment in due course, Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<p>In its report Colombo Telegraph said Author and presidential associate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Herman+Guneratne&amp;x=4&amp;y=6\">Herman Guneratne<\/a><\/span> who was recently transferred to the Matara Prison hospital lhas had the charge against him reduced to the use of minimal force in self defence and is expected to be given bail when he is produced before the Matara magistrate on Monday or the Matara High Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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