Lawyers appearing for the convicts in the Vithya Sivaloganathan rape and murder said they would file an appeal at the Appeals Court within 14 days.
The lawyers insist their clients – who were sentenced to death by the Jaffna High Court yesterday – were not guilty of the rape and murder of Vithya.
Eighteen year-old Vithya Sivaloganathan was waylaid on her way to school on May 13, 2015 and brutally gang raped and murdered.
Nine suspects including Mahalingam Shashikumar - ‘Swiss Kumar’ were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the incident.
A trial-at-bar at the Jaffna High Court found 7 of the 9 suspects guilty yesterday (27) and handed them the death sentence for he rape and murder of Vithya Sivaloganathan.
