Son remanded for alleged patricide

Kapila Somaratne - Panadura Group Correspondent

Moratuwa Magistrate B A R Somasinghe who held the magisterial inquiry into the death of 92 year German National Peter Staple remanded his son 62 year N Staple who alleged to have stabbed his father to death at Egodauyana home in Moratuwa on November 10. Peter staple had come to Sri Lanka 30 years ago and married to a Sinhala woman and lived in Egodauyana, Moratuwa.

Few years ago, the wife died and the son and the father were living in a house at Egodauyana. The son is alleged to have stabbed his father on November 10 about 2 a.m. and later surrendered to the Moratuwa police.