PARDON FOR WITNESS
Assassination Case
(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) COLOMBO, January 12.
C. Amerasinghe, one of the accused in the Bandaranaike assassination case, was granted a conditional pardon today on his agreeing to turn Crown witness and on promising to disclose all he knows about the assassination, British United Press reported. The pardon was sanctioned by the Attorney-General and conveyed to the accused in Court in Colombo this morning by the Chief Magistrate when the hearing of the assassination case was resumed.
In today’s evidence, Ossie Corga, owner of the revolver alleged to have been the murder weapon, told the Court that he was a good friend of Mr Stanley De Zoysa, the present Minister of Home Affairs in the “caretaker” Government.
Corga said that some time before the assassination he gave the revolver and other firearms to one of the accused, police officer Newton Perera, American Associated Press reported.
A few days after the assassination Corga said he asked Perera for the return of the weapons. But Perera said he had given them to one of the accused in the case, a Buddhist monk, Buddharakkhita Thero, for safekeeping. The hearing was adjourned until tomorrow.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 5
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