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Court revokes arrest warrant for slit-throat soldier

WESTMINSTER magistrates’ court has revoked an arrest warrant for a Sri Lankan army officer just days after it was issued, in what may become a major diplomatic row.

On Monday, the court convicted Brigadier Priyanka Fernando in absentia of public order offences he committed while stationed in London as a military attache at the Sri Lankan embassy.

The soldier was caught on camera repeatedly making slit-throat gestures at Tamil protesters outside the high commission last year, causing them “harassment, alarm and distress.”

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