A 30-year-old Sri Lankan man has been accused of killing his wife after her body was discovered in a hotel in Singapore’s Katong district.
Eshan Tharaka Koottage was accused of killing his wife by a Singaporean court on Monday (11 September), though specifics of how the alleged deed was carried out have not yet been made public.
On Saturday, September 9, between 10:45 a.m. and 04:42 p.m., Koottage is thought to have murdered his wife, Diyawinnage Sewwandi Maduka Kumari, at the Holiday Inn Express in Katong Square, according to CNA News.
While the accused has asked to speak to the Sri Lankan High Commission to engage a lawyer and asked for the state to provide him with a lawyer, he was told he could not communicate with anyone at this time. The prosecution requested that he be remanded for one week with permission to take him out for investigations, scene revisitation, and recovery of exhibits.
Koottage will therefore be in court again on September 18.
The accused was apprehended, according to the police, after turning himself in to the Marine Parade Neighbourhood Police Centre on Saturday at around 05:05 p.m., where he claimed to have killed his wife at the hotel.
