Colombo Additional Magistrate rules Schaffter’s death a murder

By A. J. A. Abeynayake

Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya yesterday ruled that the death of late businessman, Dinesh Schaffter, was a murder.

Additional Magistrate Jayasuriya announced the ruling, after considering the reports submitted by a five-member investigative committee comprising judicial and forensic medical experts appointed to ascertain the cause of death of the businessman. It has been found out that Schaffter died due to pressure applied to his neck and face.

Additional Magistrate Jayasuriya ordered the CID to consider the death of the businessman as a murder, and conduct the necessary investigations. On 15 Dec., 2022, Schaffter, 52, was found with his hands tied inside his own car at the Public Cemetery in Borella, and according to the family, he died that night in hospital.