Just finished catching up -- and let me offer my welcome to the chorus, for those new members posting here. The insights into Lankan culture are incredibly helpful, thank you so much for them.
I think my main reason for surmising this was not a suicide is that I have a very hard time believing anyone would throw themselves into 3 feet of water and force themselves to stay under while they drown, when there's busy roads nearby, probably train tracks and also high buildings... Of course I have no insight into Amesha's mental workings, but if -I- was distraught and seeking a way out of life, it would NOT be making myself drown in freezing cold, shallow water after climbing a high fence in the rain, traversing a dark and scary place and negotiating thick plant life to get there... It all just seems a bit unfeasible to me, and very very undignified.
Now, if Amesha was *chased* so that she had to clamber that high fence and then run into the bushy creek area to save herself, okay, I can see that happening maybe.. which also would make sense of how she also ended up dead on the other side of that fence.
Or attacked, and somebody felt the powerful need to make her death look like a possible suicide..
Keshi, I believe we are sympatico, in regard to things which are not sitting easy with this case.
Does anyone know how the relationship between police and media works in some detail?
I note that from the outset, msm headlines stated that Amesha was found 'drowned'. On what basis would they have come up with that headline? Wouldn't police have chosen that form of expression? They could have just said that Amesha was found dead in the creek... Just strikes me that they seemed to think, immediately, she died in the water.
But then they (police) also said they needed autopsy results to determine cause of death/whether or not her death was suspicious. I took that as indicating that the autopsy results would somehow help them determine whether she drowned on her own or whether someone, effectively, held her under water to drown her. The drowning seemed a given, based on the headlines...
As to the significance of a scarf wrapped around her neck ... No idea really what the scarf being wrapped around her neck was meant to allude to... I don't usually think of scarves as being long enough to hang yourself with, and they did say it was wrapped around her neck, not tied... Besides, how could she have hung herself from a tree branch, if that branch was directly over the water??? Seems far too logistically complicated a scenario to me.
People upthread raised the point that there would be easier ways of committing suicide than drowning in a shallow creek, such as jumping from a balcony.
Not knowing the layout of their unit, we don't know if that would indeed have been possible, although it's natural to presume it would be...
Then I thought that if something just hit Amesha at that moment, where she felt she had to get out, she probably couldn't jump over the balcony for at least a few hours, with her father being at home. So perhaps the creek was Plan B...
