Remanded for robbing jewellery

S N Godamunne Gampola Group Corr

A 57-year-old woman and her 19-year-old boyfriend were arrested by the Gampola Police recently for the alleged robbery of six sovereign gold jewellery from a relative's house in Sinhapitiya, Gampola. They were produced before the Gampola Chief Magistrate Upali Gunawardene and remanded till June 2.

Police said investigations revealed that the suspect woman had been employed as a day worker in the relative's house.

The owner's elderly mother and aunt had lived in the house and it had been an ideal setting for the suspect woman to steal things from the house on her boyfriends' compulsion.

Once her boyfriend had demanded Rs 200,000 from her to help him seek employment abroad. Accordingly, the suspect woman had robbed a 2 sovereign chain, two and a half sovereign pair of bangles, one sovereign bangles, a gold pendent and two gold rings from the house from time to time and given them to her boyfriend who had mortgaged the items to two pawn shops in Gampola and Nawalapitiya for Rs 122,000.