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Fugitive murderer arrested 17 years after jail break
View(s):A convicted murderer who escaped from jail some 17 years ago was re-arrested in Polonnaruwa on Friday evening, police said. They said the man was convicted for a murder he committed in 1987 and handed over a four-year prison sentence by a Court in Anuradhapura in September 1996. However, he broke out of the Welikada jail after serving only one year of his sentence and had remained at large since then. The suspect was due to be produced before a local Magistrate, police said. (LB)