A three-wheeler driver from Mawathagama has pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to sexually assault two foreign tourist women by exposing his private parts. This was when the case was taken up at the Pilessa Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
The Pilessa Magistrate, who sentenced the accused in connection with the incident, sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment with 6 months of rigorous imprisonment suspended for 10 years. In addition, the Magistrate ordered the accused to pay compensation of one and a half lakh rupees each to the two foreign women who were subjected to violence and to pay two fines of one thousand five hundred rupees each for the two relevant charges.
The accused was then ordered to be released on three surety bonds of one lakh rupees each. The punishment was imposed on a 33-year-old unmarried three-wheeler driver named Muthuthanthrilage Chanaka Nuwan Jayasinghe, a resident of Barandana Road, Mawathagama.