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Kishokumar Balachandiran

Age: 18

Sex: male

Date: 8 Jun 2003

Place: River Roding, Wanstead, London

Cisho Kumar Balachandiran was found in the River Roding in Wanstead, East London.

He was taken to hospital where he died a week later.

Cisho Balachandiran had been a student. He was found in the River Roding about 10 hours after he was attacked at about 12 noon on 8 June 2003. It was thought that he had been beaten for several hours and was found to have had face, neck, shoulder and stomach injuries. He was also suffering from shock and hypothermia.

 

He was a Tamil. His murder was said to have been related to Sri Lankan and Tamil gang wars across London.

 

His murder was linked to the murder of Partheepan Balasingham who was attacked outside the Palm Beach restaurant in Ealing Road, Wembley, at 1am on the same day. It was said that the gang that had killed Partheepan Balasingham after attacking him at 1am in Wembly had driven across London to High Road, Ilford where they kidnapped Cisho Balachandiran at about 2am from outside a bar, tortured him, and then dumped him in the River Roding with serious injuries.

Cisho Balachandiran was found sitting in a river in Wanstead with serious injuries to the head and body and died soon after in hospital.

It was also said that he had been tortured before being dumped in the river.

It was heard that there had been a fight earlier on in the night at the Icon Bar in Ilford, Essex between two gangs in which Kishokumar Balachandiran had been involved.

There were said to have been 12 men in the gang that had attacked both Cisho Balachandiran and Partheepan Balasinghan and that they had travelled in convoy around the M25 motorway from Wembley to Ilford to carry out the murders. The attack on Partheepan Balasinghan took place at about 1am whilst the attack on Cisho Balachandiran took place at about 2am.

Seventeen men were later arrested and two addresses search in Barkingside and Ilford, with the police finding a number of weapons. The police said that the suspects in both cases were thought to be Sri Lankan.

In July 2003 two men were charged with his murder but nothing more is known about the charges.  They were:

  1. 22-year-old unemployed man from Barkingside.
  2. 23-year-old unemployed man from Barkingside.

they had both lived in Barkingside High Road.

He was also reffered to as Kishokumar Balachandiran.


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