2.6.2008
By Walter Jayawardhana
Mother
of two Sri Lankan Tamil children who were killed is scheduled
to be sent to a secure mental health facility police sources
said. "She was detained under the Mental Health Act
during the night of June 1," a police spokesman added.
The
mother of the Sri Lankan Tamil toddlers who have been
murdered by slitting their throats was detained by the
Scotland Yard, will be sent for further assessment of
her mental health.
Scotland
Yard spokesman said, “She will go to a secure mental
health facility where she will undergo further assessment
and receive any treatment that might be needed. We will
still continue to investigate the circumstances of what
happened.”
The
Police said the post mortem examinations on the bodies
of the dead children will be done today or tomorrow.
Shocked
neighbours left more than thirty floral tributes in the
garden of the house where the tragedy occurred. One message
read: “May you rest in peace, little angels.”
Another note said “Your life lay before you like
fresh untrodden snow and suddenly life has been snatched
from your two innocent lives.”
The
35 year old mother from Chunnakam in Jaffna District in
Sri Lanka ,Sasikala Navaneethan was also treated for suspected
self-inflicted minor injuries while her six month old
baby daughter, remained in a South London Hospital after
having undergone emergency surgery.
The
39 year old Sri Lankan Tamil father, Navaratnarajah who
was arrested together with his wife for the murder of
their five and four year old children and slitting the
throat of their six months old baby girl has been released
without charge by the police.
He
has been also bailed out on a different matter and the
police refused to comment on it.
The
injured baby girl whose throat has been cut was operated
on by surgeons during the night of Saturday and the Police
said the baby is in critical but stable condition.
The
young Sri Lankan Tamil couple were arrested by the New
Scotland yard police for the suspected murder of their
five year old boy , four year old girl and grievous hurt
of a six month old baby girl , by cutting their throats
the police said.
The
attack on the children and the injury of the woman allegedly
took place in their four bedroomed 300,000 Pound house
in South London at Park Road in Carshalton, the Police
said.
The
mother and the father were being extensively questioned
by the murder squad and the child abuse unit of the new
Scotland Yard, before the father being released without
any charge the Police said.
The
Police and ambulances reached the murder scene at 10.30
p.m. May 30, the neighbors said. The paramedics who came
in several ambulances to the scene put them in the vehicles
and were seen attempting to resuscitate the injured children
before being removing them to the hospital, the neighbors
said.
But
the two older children, a boy aged five and a girl aged
four died within 15 minutes of each other shortly before
midnight, Friday after admission to the hospital. Sources
said their throats had been cut.
Courtesy - Asian
Tribune