Don’t think it wont happen to you, Out of the 22 couples or individuals I mention. (2 being unknown to me) 5 have had land or land and house stolen, at least 5 have either lost or given tuk tuks, 1 has been shot at, 1 has been assaulted, 1 has had house destroyed by fire, (hearsay) 4 have had their homes abused in their absence, 19 have been overcharged, (21 assuming the two I don’t know were treated the same)
and only one says he’s never had problems. and as this one person is the only one to say he has never had a problem similar to those I mention I think its fair to say he’s unique as I know more people than mentioned here and all have had problems.
Saman wanted to find me a new wife after my wedding, he suggested I should leave the very recent new wife and let him fix me up with another, (Seeing as he arranged to marry my stepdaughter whilst he was and is married to Chathurika I think it must be possible to have multiple wife’s,) of course all of this was because he was seeing his well made plan slip into beach boy folk law, and any “new wife” would of course be under Saman’s control
Saman must have been opening my bank statements, I only got 2 statements all the time I stayed at Saman’s house, when I started to worry about my balance Saman would insist I was not as poor as I was claiming to be, it is now obvious that Saman intended to take every penny I had.
Despite the apparent believe that all non nationals are infinitely rich, there must be realisation that that is not the case as many of the beach boy type hope that their victim will become low or run out of money, and thereby making it easier to secure their ill-gotten gains, indeed many non nationals do give in to such tactics in order to avoid wasting more money.
When my money had almost gone the entire family seemed to be “testing the water” by asking me to make loans to various people who would make generous repayments, I had some money left and I believe that was what they were after.
Saman lived quite a lavish lifestyle (for a poor beach boy) with my money and must have been aggrieved that there was no more coming his way as he knew I did have some, he damaged the three wheeler one night (drunk) and it went for repair, it was gone for over 2 months awaiting payment and eventually his mother in law pawned her gold to get the vehicle recovered, or at least that was what I was told, I think I was supposed to feel sorry for poor old M.I.L and use the last of my money to get her gold back, had I done so I’m sure that would have been when the family would get me deported.. Greedily trying to get my last rupee should ultimately be this grasping families downfall.
Fortunately a criminal trial will not cost me any more than my bus fares and daily sustenance as it’s the “state” that is prosecuting Saman, I’m not sure how my reactions will be when I watch Saman’s criminal trial but I do hope he gets a severe custodial sentence and believe his wife and the lawyer who prepared the deeds should also be sentenced, I have to drive thoughts away of how it could have been and remember the full evil intent of his actions whilst making out to be a friend,
Do not trust these people
Mahaliyana Saman Priyanka Mendis Wijesekara and his wife Malaweera Arachohige Chathurika Lakmali. the man is known as Sammi or Saman he has been charged with fraud and will appear at High Court in March 2010. Chathurika might walk free only the high Court can decide
Father and Son
Lalith Lakmal is the father of Eranga, Lalith launched a very violent attack on my friend Gordon after Gordon accidentally ruined his daughter "Chathurika's" chances of succeeding with the theft. I used to let Eranga go into my room and use my laptop untill things went missing, he admits (unusual) to taking 2 phones and some English £10 notes but denied taking my watch which was quite precious to me, strange thing was that the family made sure that his father did not find out, Shamed that he'd got caught maybe??
The house stands in 3 acres of cinnamon, all has been stolen
just a bit of the furniture that was stolen
About Me
Jeep
I was told that I was the owner of this "jeep" however it turned out that the vehicle was borrowed to convince me that I was being told the truth, when the vehicle was missing for sometime I was assured that it was being used to "earn us money" all was of course another pack of lies, the money was lost gambling to the man who owned the "jeep"
Nice but Nasty
Eranga is the son of Lalith Lakmal, Eranga’s sister is Chathurika Lakmali wife of Saman, Eranga has two older brothers and they seem to be decent Sri Lankan citizens, When I first met Eranga he was about 12 years old, both my x wife and I thought he was nice, we always made an effort to send postcards and little presents to him when on holiday in different countries, I made up a lot a sticky labels with his name and address on and gave them to people where I worked, they in turn passed them on to others who were going abroad and so Eranga received many cards from all over the world, we also made a point of always bringing a present for Eranga when we visited Sri Lanka. He repaid me by stealing personal items and money from the room I was using in Saman’s house,
Stole Frozen sausages
came to look at my house after my wedding and stole frozen sausages from the freezer, see story at bottom of page
beaten by Saman for a few keepsakes
Thalidomide victim who by coincidence has the same (short) name as Saman, this young man was beaten and robbed by his namesake for the few gifts we had bought him from the UK, had I known this about Saman later events may have been different but Sri Lankan’s are good at keeping quiet as they fear being beaten up, Saman’s intentions were known by others but the ones who were not actual friends of Saman were threatened and never told me,
Big Bad Bob
Bob on the left and Saman on the right, this picture was taken a few years ago but both these characters are recognisable from this, see blog "Beach boys, Guides and Tuk Tuk drivers"
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