Kandatha Kankanamlage Suranga Pradeep Lasantha Perera vs. Hon. Attorney General – CA NO. 163/2014-2021

In the case between the Hon. Attorney General, Attorney General’s Department, Colombo 12 (Complainant/Respondent) and Kandatha Kankanamlage Suranga Pradeep and Lasantha Perera (Accused/Accused-Appellant), the court addressed the admissibility of evidence and the standards for appellate intervention in convictions for murder. The main legal issues involved whether alleged procedural irregularities and evaluation of the defence of alibi had resulted in a miscarriage of justice, including reliance by the trial judge on facts not evidenced and the decision to call a witness after the defence closed its case. The appellate court held that the convictions were properly reached, finding the eyewitness testimony of child witnesses credible and ruling that procedural errors did not prejudice the ac