Overview
- Thisara Weragalage, 38, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 23 years and nine months after pleading guilty to murder and possessing a knife.
- He fatally stabbed his wife, 32-year-old Nirodha Niwunhella, on 21 August 2025 in a residential car park in Riverside, Cardiff.
- CCTV and phone evidence showed he staked out the site on eight occasions and bought a pack of kitchen knives the day before the killing.
- The judge said the attack was ferocious, noting 17 stab wounds, and condemned Weragalage’s “brutal selfishness.”
- The CPS highlighted strong evidence of planning as part of its work on violence against women and girls, while the victim’s family described overwhelming grief and difficulties compounded by the crime occurring abroad.