Jury dissolved

The Sinhala speaking  jury in the murder  trial of slain   journalist  Sivaram Dharmaratnam was  dissolved   since one of the prosecution witnesses was not present for the case  or his whereabouts was  not known.

When the case was taken up for   inquiry before the High Court Judge  W.A.T. Ratnayake  yesterday it was revealed that the  Sinhala speaking jury had been dissolved   since the third witness for the prosecution  Prasanna

Pubudu Ratnayake was not present for the  case.

The court appointed a Sinhala speaking jury to hear the trial on the request of the defence. The journalist Sivaram Dharmaratnam was killed on or about  January 05, 2005  and the  suspect Arumugam Sri Skandaraja was indicted for the killing before the Colombo High Court.

The hearing was fixed for  October 4.