Lawyers appearing for the convicts in the Vithya Sivaloganathan rape and murder said they would file an appeal at the Appeals Court within 14 days.

The lawyers insist their clients – who were sentenced to death by the Jaffna High Court yesterday – were not guilty of the rape and murder of Vithya.

Eighteen year-old Vithya Sivaloganathan was waylaid on her way to school on May 13, 2015 and brutally gang raped and murdered.

Nine suspects including Mahalingam Shashikumar – ‘Swiss Kumar’ were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the incident.

A trial-at-bar at the Jaffna High Court found 7 of the 9 suspects guilty yesterday (27) and handed them the death sentence for he rape and murder of Vithya Sivaloganathan.

Courtesy:Asian Mirror