The court case regarding the murder of British National Khuram Shaikh and the sexual assault on his girlfriend at a hotel in Tangalle in which the Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman and six others are implicated has been postponed to April 23.
The Manageress of the hotel in which the crime took place was unable to testify to court when the case was taken up yesterday (April 3) by the Colombo High Court due to a sudden illness.
The court also denied granting bail to the primary defendant.
The Manageress earlier testified that she witness the Tangalle PS Chairman assaulting the victim within the hotel premises while also stating that she was threatened at gunpoint and warned not to go to the authorities.
The Chairman of the Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha and six others are accused of the murder of Khuram Shaikh, the British tourist who was killed in the 2011 Christmas Eve tragedy at a hotel in Tangalle. His girlfriend was also assaulted in the attack and subsequently molested.
A Red Cross worker in Gaza, Shaikh was on a holiday in Sri Lanka when he was shot and stabbed.
