Karuna Amman returns

Renegade former Tiger leader Karuna Amman returned to Sri Lanka yesterday after a six-month jail term in Britain for immigration offences, a spokesman for his breakaway party said.

He was detained in November 2007 in London and pleaded guilty to carrying a passport in a false name.

"Our leader, Karuna Amman, has arrived into the country this evening from London," Azad Moulana, a spokesman for the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP), told Reuters.

Defence Spokesman and Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion, Keheliya Rambukwella, earlier said if Karuna returned the authorities would deal with him according to the law. Reuters