A 60-year-old British woman who spent her $160k life savings on her Sri Lankan toy boy husband before he was murdered has now returned home penniless.

Diane De Zoysa, 60, from Edinburgh, met Priyanjana De Zoysa, 26, while on holiday in Sri Lanka seven years ago and they wed just six months later. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

‘I feel stupid’: British woman returns home penniless after spending $160k on Sri Lankan husband, 34 years her junior

Priyanjana died after being shot three times in May last year.
Diane previously explained how she believes her husband was killed by men trying to extort him for cash.she said: "His friend told me they were jealous because he was rich. They were jealous because he had a nice a house, a minibus and a tuk-tuk."They blackmailed him. He did give them some money but they wanted more. Because they didn't give him more, they shot him. They must have gone looking for him."

A British woman who spent her £90,000 ($160,000) life savings on her young Sri Lankan husband before he was murdered has now returned home penniless.

Diane De Zoysa’s wedding to Priyanjana De Zoysa. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

The pair first met around seven years ago while Diane was on holiday in Sri Lanka and Priyanjana was working in her hotel.

Diane De Zoysa, 60, from Edinburgh, met Priyanjana De Zoysa, 26, while on holiday in Sri Lanka seven years ago and they wed just six months later. Diane was left heartbroken when he was then murdered last year by blackmailers who learned he had come into money and suddenly found herself ridden with debt and stranded in the country.

She said that she sold her home in Musselburgh, East Lothian, two years ago, using the cash to build a house in Sri Lanka and buy her husband a minibus. Photo / Facebook

She later discovered he had wed a local teenager behind her back shortly before his death.

After Priyanjana was killed she claims she became a “prisoner in her own home” and was held hostage by his family until she ran out of cash.

She says her in-laws refused to let her sell the house she funded, which had been put in the name of her husband’s family.

She had initially met husband Priyanjana while on holiday in 2011, enjoying a whirlwind romance with the hotel worker. Photo / Facebook

Speaking to The Daily Record, she said: “I just couldn’t stay there any longer. I kind of feel stupid now that I didn’t listen to my family and my friends because they said it was just about the money.

“I thought he did really love me but obviously he didn’t.”

They kept in touch after she went home and they married seven months later when she returned for another holiday.

After several years of enduring a long-distance relationship, Diane packed up last year and moved to the small coastal town of Ahungalla, south of the capital Colombo.

She said she used the money from the sale of her property in Scotland to build a house for the couple.

Diane told how she also shelled out £31,000 ($55,000) for a new minibus for Priyanjana to travel to work in.

But on May 30 last year he was gunned down at a friend’s house — with Diane claiming his killers were trying to extort cash from him.

She said: “They thought he was a rich man as he had a nice house, a minibus and a tuktuk.

“He paid them but they wanted more.”

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