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Police have arrested a second suspect over the murder of a Dominos pizza delivery driver in Sheffield.
Thavisha Lakindu Peiris, 25, was found dead in his car having suffered numerous stab wounds oat 22:30 on Sunday evening in the Southey area Sheffield. He was found by another pizza delivery man who went to look for him after he failed to deliver his last order.
Peiris was killed making his final delivery round for Dominos before moving to his “dream job” as an IT consultant in the city according to reports.
A 17-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man have been arrested over the murder, and are currently being questioned in police custody.
50 police officers are involved in the case, but are currently working on the assumption that Peiris’ death was a “random attack”.
The officer leading the inquiry, Detective Superintendent Lisa Ray, said she did not know why Peiris was killed in an apparently random attack. She said robbery was a possibility but it appeared that no money had been taken.
Domino’s Pizza has said it is funding the cost of flying Peiris’s family to the UK in the coming days.