Sri Lankan cricketer, 31-year-old Danushka Gunathilaka will
remain in custody in New South Wales, after being charged with four
counts of
sexual assault.
Gunathilaka was arrested at Sussex Street hotel in Sydney CBD,
early in the morning on the Sunday 6 November 2022, where his team
were staying for the T20 World Cup.
It is reported that he was scheduled to fly out of the country
on the same morning that police officers attended the hotel to
charge him.
He was pulled off his team's bus in the driveway of the
hotel.
The rest of the Sri Lankan team flew home on Sunday morning,
whilst Gunathilaka remained in Surry Hills Police station holding
cells. Had Gunathilaka left the country that morning with his team
before police arrived to arrest him, it would have been a time
consuming process for Australia to try to extradite him back to
face the trial in NSW. It would be more difficult to facilitate
this given there is no extradition treaty between Australia
and
