FB troll pleads guilty: released with warning

(Published in Daily Mirror on 24/05/2016)

By Shehan Chamika Silva

The suspect, who was remanded over threatening President Maithripala Sirisena, and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the social media, pleaded guilty at the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The suspect pleaded guilty over the charges of intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace and the criminal intimidation under Clauses of 484 and 486 of the Penal Code.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya discharged the suspect, Sumal Lakmana, a resident of Yakkala after delivering a stern warning over the alleged behavior.

Lakmana was remanded for 25 days after he was arrested by the CID at the Bandaranaike International Airport for allegedly making death threats to the President and the Prime Minister.