http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/03/12/new18.html
Karate champ runs amok, kills woman
by Asanga Warnakulasuriya
A black belt karate champion Gayan Sanjeewa Hapuarachchi who represented Sri Lanka in the South Asian games was alleged to have gone berserk and chopped a 37-year-old mother of two to death, Divulapitiya Police said yesterday.
Villagers and Police stood petrified while watching the suspect displaying a wide array of karate chop, not allowing anyone to come close to him. Ultimately the Police had to fire several shots at his foot to overpower him. He was then taken into custody, OIC Crimes S.P.K. Jayasuriya told the Daily News yesterday.
Police said that the suspect had entered the deceased's house around 5.00 a.m. while the husband was away.
According to Police, the 29-year-old youth who had returned home after receiving treatment at Angoda mental hospital several weeks ago was running a farm before his conditioned worsened. It is said that suspect had not taken the prescribed medicine.
The suspect, produced before the Negombo Magistrate, was remanded pending the submission of a medical certificate.
