The Colombo High Court this morning imposed the death sentence on the man arrested in connection with the murder of Mel Gunasekera.

Journalist Mel Gunasekera was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her house in Battaramulla on Sunday, February 2 2014 morning.

The accused Anthony Ramson George was a labourer who had painted the Gunasekera house for Christmas the previous year.

He was accused of breaking into the house on Sunday morning, when he assumed the family was attending church, and committing the murder of Mel Gunasekera who was at home.