A swimming instructor at a hotel in Kadawatha was assaulted by a group of guests after he told them their time in the pool had run out. He is being treated at Ragama Hospital, and his family says police have not yet begun investigating.
The account was reported by Hiru News at 1:11 p.m. Colombo time on Sunday.
What is alleged
The group had come to the hotel to drink. At one point they asked the instructor for permission to drink alcohol while in the swimming pool, and he refused.
They then went elsewhere to drink, returned, and got into the pool. When the instructor told them they had exceeded the time allotted to them, the group assaulted him.
He is now receiving treatment at Ragama Hospital. His family has lodged a complaint with the Kadawatha Police — but says that as of the filing, no investigation had been carried out.
The complaint about inaction is the story
The assault itself is a routine enough matter for a police station. What makes this filing worth publishing is the second half of it: the family’s statement that a complaint has been made and nothing has followed.
That is an allegation about the police response, and it is made by the complainant’s family rather than established by the reporting. It is reproduced here as their account, not as a finding. No response from the Kadawatha Police appears in the filing, and the station has not been given an opportunity to answer in anything this site has been able to read.
Kadawatha has featured in this site’s coverage twice in two days for unrelated reasons — police opened fire on a three-wheeler at Mahakade junction on Friday night, injuring a 16-year-old. The two matters are not connected and involve different officers and different circumstances.
A note on the description
Hiru’s English headline calls the injured man a “swimming pool official”. Its Sinhala text describes him as a පිහිණුම් තටාක පුහුණු නිලධාරියා — a swimming instructor or coach, a person employed to teach and supervise swimmers. “Official” suggests an administrator; the role described is a poolside one, and that is the term used here.
Not reported
The filing does not name the hotel, the instructor or anyone in the group, and does not say how many people were involved or whether any have been identified. It gives no date or time for the assault, does not describe the injuries beyond the fact of hospital treatment, and does not say whether the instructor’s condition is serious. It does not say when the complaint was made to Kadawatha Police, or how long has passed without action. No arrest is reported.
Single verified source. This report rests on Hiru News, a verified newsroom. No other verified outlet had filed on the incident at the time of writing, and the Daily Mirror’s breaking news listing carried nothing on it.
A note on the image: Hiru’s photograph for this story carries that outlet’s watermark and its own “Ai generated image” label, so it is evidence of nothing and has not been used. A category placeholder appears instead.
