Colombo: Sri Lanka’s president has pardoned a death-row prisoner who murdered a Swedish teenager just a week before he leaves office, officials said Sunday, in a move that sparked national outrage.
Convicted killer Jude Jayamaha, from a wealthy, high-profile family, walked out of Welikada prison on Saturday following the highly unusual amnesty granted by President Maithripala Sirisena.
Victim Yvonne Jonsson, who was holidaying in Sri Lanka, was beaten to death at a high-rise apartment in Colombo in 2005 after she and Jayamaha had an argument. Her skull was fractured into 64 pieces. (AFP)
