5 April 1983- Matugama Srilanka - 14 year old student named Saman Kumara was held to ransom and was later murdered by the kidnapper. The kidnapper was identified as the victim’s uncle named Dharmasiri ! Saman Kumara was forced a write to his parents asking them to save him and to give in to the kidnapper’s demands for ransom and the victim was strangled with the victim’s shoe lace and it was thought that the strangulation was done with the help of another person or persons. The helper was a man named Premasiri who was a relative of Dharmasiri. The boy was murdered to prevent him identifying the uncle as the kidnapper. One of the Supreme Court judges was Nihal Jayasinghe who is a class mate of mine I gathered.