Man sentenced to death for murdering woman journalist in Lanka

A 39-year-old man was today sentenced to death by the Sri Lankan High Court for murdering a senior woman journalist.

Mel Gunasekara (40) was found dead with cut injuries at her Colombo suburb home on February, 2014, while her other family members were attending a weekly mass at a nearby church.

Police arrested Anthony George, who had been previously hired by Gunsekara family to paint their house, over the killing.

Gunasekara was stabbed to death when she attempted to resist the convict who broke into her house.

In addition to the death sentence, he was also imprisoned for stealing belongings of the victim after the murder.

Gunsekara was the founding editor of Lanka Business Online, a popular financial news website in Sri Lanka and later worked as a correspondent at

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