Thajudeen was assaulted and wounded – JMO/Ceylon Today

Thajudeen was assaulted and wounded – JMO Former Chief Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) Ananda Samarasekera informed the colombo Chief Magistrate's Court yesterday that rugby player Mohammed Wasim Thajudeen had been pulled out from the vehicle he was travelling and assaulted on his head and several places on his body and as a result had lost consciousness. He also said, while Thajudeen was alive he had been put back into the vehicle and when it was being driven the vehicle had veered off the road. inShare Email Ceylontoday, 2015-09-11 02:05:00Read 146 Times Thajudeen was assaulted and wounded – JMO By Ishara Rathnakara Former Chief Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) Ananda Samarasekera informed the colombo Chief Magistrate's Court yesterday that rugby player Mohammed Wasim Thajudeen had been pulled out from the vehicle he was travelling and assaulted on his head and several places on his body and as a result had lost consciousness. He also said, while Thajudeen was alive he had been put back into the vehicle and when it was being driven the vehicle had veered off the road. The final post-mortem report in connection with the death of rugby player Thajudeen who is alleged to have been murdered on 17 May 2012 was produced before the Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris by former Chief Judicial Medical Officer Ananda Samarasekera. It was then that Samarasekera made the above observations. Thajudeen had been rendered immobile by assaults on his head and limbs and Ananda Samarasekera pointed out that he would not have been able to drive his car. He had stated in his report that these wounds to Thajudeen's head and limbs would not have resulted in immediate death. The former Chief JMO said that Thajudeen would have driven his vehicle subsequent to having consumed a large amount of alcohol and that he would have done that about two hours prior to the relevant accident. But the accident would have happened at a time when the alcohol effect in Thajudeen's body was gradually reducing. He observed that those who used alcohol regularly were able to drive a vehicle even under the influence of alcohol. Samarasekera told Court that it could be deduced that by the time the vehicle met with the accident, other parts of Thajudeen's body (such as the limbs) had been inactive and that he had been assaulted prior to the vehicle veering off the road. He also said that, when the fire broke out in the vehicle Thajudeen would have still been alive and although he was rendered immobile because of the assault he had been breathing prior to the fire. The former Chief JMO who stated that, as a result of the fire that broke out in the vehicle, Thajudeen's blood contained Carbon monoxide and most of the wounds on his body had been as a result of the fire, further said that he had died within a short period of time due to the fire. He informed the Court that the wound on Thajudeen's chest would have occurred due to collision with something circular (probably the steering wheel of the vehicle). The former Chief JMO who had carried out the post-mortem examination in connection with Thajudeen's death had based his final report presented to the Court on 9 points. The reason for the death he has concluded is inhalation of Carbon monoxide due to becoming a victim of the fire, the injury to the head and the pressure of the steering wheel on his chest.