{"id":95208,"date":"2019-11-14T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95208"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:37:01","slug":"please-give-me-another-chance-shramantha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/14\/please-give-me-another-chance-shramantha\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Please give me another chance\u2019 &#8211; Shramantha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nIn an open letter, Shramantha Jude Jayamaha, who was convicted over the Royal Park murder and released on a presidential pardon recently, requested society to give him another chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ask for your understanding, because that is the kind of country we live in &#8211; where there is hope for even the worst criminal and mercy and forgiveness is a way of life. Please give me another chance,\u201d&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a lengthy letter, Mr. Jayamaha elaborated on his story, his family background, the murder, conviction, prison life and the pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he has no adequate words to express his grief towards what has come upon the Johnson family and said he was so ashamed for what has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The letter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_b721adbed6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_5972741830.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; Comments &#8211; 23<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror In an open letter, Shramantha Jude Jayamaha, who was convicted over the Royal Park murder and released on a presidential pardon recently, requested society to give him another chance. I ask for your understanding, because that is the kind of country we live in &#8211; where there is hope for even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}