{"id":119421,"date":"2014-02-02T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119421"},"modified":"2014-02-03T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:59:41","slug":"mel-gunesekera-murder-suspect-arrested-in-dompe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mel-gunesekera-murder-suspect-arrested-in-dompe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gunasekera Murder; Suspect Arrested In Dompe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect over the murder of journalist\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mel+Gunesekera&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">Mel Gunasekera<\/a><\/span>\u00a0arrested in Dompe by Mirihana Special Crimes Unit, the Police spokesman said a short while ago. The suspect had been identified as Samson Anthony.\u00a0According to the police, the Blackberry phone of the murdered journalist found in possession of the suspect. Mirihana Police says the suspect was a mason who worked at her house a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119422\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119422\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-119422\" alt=\"Mel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mel1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mel1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mel1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Agence France Presse (AFP) Journalist Mel Gunasekera has been found murdered in her home in Battaramulla, a suburb of Colombo this morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police the murder was as a result of a failed robbery attempt. While working at her home, the suspect Samson Anthony had noticed that the entire family attended church from 6.15am to 9am every Sunday. Today morning he had arrived at the house with the intention of stealing and the murdered journalist had confronted him.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Sri Lanka AFP Journalist Murdered In Her Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-afp-journalist-murdered-in-her-home\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sri Lanka AFP Journalist Murdered In Her Home<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"An Eulogy: Mel Gunasekera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/an-eulogy-mel-gunasekera\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An Eulogy: Mel Gunasekera<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":119422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mel Gunasekera Murder; 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