Senthamil Thillainathan

Senthamil Thillainathan (born 1981 in Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lanka born, British based convicted murderer.

Thillainathan was born in Sri Lanka but moved to the Wembley area of London as a child, and quickly got involved in gangland crime. At one stage he lived at Kingswinford in the West Midlands.

He committed his first murder on 17 June 2001, when he and three other men pounced on a parked car occupied by four other Sri Lankan men. He and his gang attacked the men and killed 25-year-old Arvithan Muthukamarasamy. The three other men were badly injured but survived, even though one of them lost a hand in the attack. Thillainathan had organised the attack because he was under the wrong impression that one of them had scratched his BMW car.

On 18 February 2002, Thillainathan and his gang abducted and murdered 18-year-old Supenthar Tamachardan before dumping his body in Roe Green Park and setting it alight. Mr Tamachardan had owed his killers £200 and they killed him after he failed to pay off his debt.

Thillainathan was found guilty on a double charge of murder on 6 June 2003 and sentenced to life imprisonment three days later. He appealed against his convictions but his case was thrown out by the Court of Appeal on 20 May 2005.

No recommended minimum term was reported at the time of his trial, and neither the High Court nor the Home Secretary has been reported to have made a decision on Thillainathan's case.

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