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divdiv class=story-body readability=45 span class=story-date#13; span class=date30 October 2013/span#13; span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time10:30 ET/span#13; #13; /span#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1A pizza delivery man found stabbed to death at the wheel of his car was making his final delivery before starting a new job./p#13; pThavisha Lakindu Peiris, 25, was found dead by colleagues in his car in Southey Crescent, Sheffield, at 22:30 GMT on Sunday./p#13; pSouth Yorkshire Police said he had just accepted a new job as an IT consultant./p#13; pDet Supt Lisa Ray said he had lost his life in the most brutal of fashions in an apparently motiveless crime./p#13; pShe said: He was a kind, caring sort of person and not the type that would get into trouble. He was there going about his business and somebody seems to have attacked him without any reason./p#13; pAt the moment we don't have any positive leads in terms of who is responsible./p#13; pThis isn't a major road or a cut-through to anywhere else so we do believe that it is somebody within this local community or somebody with contacts in this community that they may have been visiting./p#13; span class=cross-head'Absolute tragedy'/span#13; pMr Peiris, who was born in Sri Lanka, had been working at Domino's Pizza in Halifax Road after completing a degree in IT at Sheffield Hallam University in 2011./p#13; pMs Ray said more than 50 officers were working on the case./p#13; pHe was a bright, hard-working, intelligent and caring man who had worked hard to develop his career in Sheffield./p#13; pHis murder is an absolute tragedy and has caused untold grief for his mother, father and brother in Sri Lanka and for his many friends in Sri Lanka and in Sheffield, she added./p#13; pMr Peiris left the restaurant at 21:50 to make a delivery in Southey Crescent and when the customer called to say he had not arrived, colleagues set off to find him./p#13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13; !-- This is the embedded player component --#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- wwrights check --#13; !-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13; #13; #13; #13; div class=videoInStoryC readability=1#13; div id=emp-24744834-22379 class=emp#13; #13; #13; noscript#13; div class=warning readability=1#13; img class=holding src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70795000/jpg/_70795260_pizzacops.jpg alt=Detective Superintendent Lisa Ray/pstrongPlease turn on JavaScript./strong Media requires JavaScript to play./p#13; /div#13; /noscript#13; #13; !-- embedding script --#13; #13; /div#13; !-- companion banner -- #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- END - companion banner --!-- caption --p class=captionDet Supt Lisa Ray: This was meant to be his last day delivering pizza/p#13; !-- END - caption --#13; #13; #13; #13; /div#13; !-- end of the embedded player component --#13; #13; !-- Player embedded -- pThey found him dead in his Toyota Yaris outside the address where he was due to make the delivery./p#13; pA post-mortem examination found Mr Peiris died from stab wounds./p#13; pMs Ray said: It is urgent that anyone who saw him, or his car, or anything that they now regard as suspicious, comes forward without delay./p#13; pA family is grieving for a young man whose life has been taken from him in the most brutal of fashions, and we owe it to him and his family to find the person or persons responsible./p#13; span class=cross-head'Kind person'/span#13; pShe said Mr Peiris had spoken to his mother every day since he had come to Britain and his relatives were preparing to travel to Sheffield from Sri Lanka./p#13; pThe manager at Mr Peiris' branch of Domino's Pizza, Ravi Marripudi, said: It is so shocking. He was such a kind person./p#13; pIf someone had wanted money, he would not have fought, he would have handed it over./p#13; pMr Marripudi said Mr Peiris had not been feeling well on Sunday evening and wanted to go home but he said he would deliver this last one./p#13; pHe added that four of his delivery drivers had decided to leave their jobs since the stabbing./p#13; pA spokesman for the company said it was doing all it could to assist the police investigation./p#13; pAll at Domino's Pizza are shocked and saddened by his death and our thoughts and prayers go out to his colleagues, friends and family./p#13; pSouth Yorkshire Police said a number of men arrested had been questioned and released without charge./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center