Sri Lanka lifts travel ban on grieving British groom
Colombo - A Briton whose bride died on their honeymoon two days after arriving in Sri Lanka was allowed to return home after a court lifted a travel ban Wednesday.
"When I heard that I can go back, the realisation finally hit me that I am going back to a life without my wife," Chandaria told AFP by telephone from the southern resort town of Galle. A court official told AFP that Galle magistrate Pavithra Pathirana revoked the travel ban as Chandaria was not regarded as a suspect in the death of his wife.
"If I was a foreigner in the UK and this happened, no one would have helped me as much as the help I got here," he said adding that friends and relatives back home too were very supportive.The inquest into Patel's death will resume in August, officials said, but Chandaria is not required to attend.
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