Manchester City take on Spanish side Atletico Madrid as they bring down the curtain on their pre-season tour of the Far East.
11.07.2023 - 21:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death as she played in the street. Lilia Valutyte was knifed in the heart by Deividas Skebas outside a shop where her mother was working.
CCTV footage showed him taking a knife from the pocket of his jeans on July 28, 2022. He ran along a road and stabbed Lilia once in the chest before running away.
Skebas, 23, was deemed unfit to plead or face a conventional trial due to his mental health and was the subject of a two-day trial of the facts at a crown court hearing.
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Skebas attacked Lilia eight days after returning to the UK for a second time from his home country of Lithuania, Lincoln Crown Court was told. A jury was shown video footage of him running at about 6.15pm on July 28. Lilia was declared dead at 7.11pm at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital.
Prosecutor Christopher Donnellan KC said a Sabatier paring knife, bought by Skebas two days before the killing in the town’s Wilko shop, was later found at his home in Thorold Street, Boston. A t-shirt, stained with Lilia’s blood, was also found, and Skebas, in an interview with police, admitted stabbing the schoolgirl.
On Tuesday (July 11), he was detained in a secure hospital for an indefinite period – the only sentence the court could pass. It came hours after jurors returned their determination after about 15 minutes of deliberation.
Judge Mrs Justice McGowan DBE said: “The grief and suffering of (Lilia's) family has been beyond imagination. Given the fact that (Skebas) has been found to have killed a child, I am of the opinion that the only appropriate way to deal with the case is to make an order under Section 37 of the Mental Health
Manchester City take on Spanish side Atletico Madrid as they bring down the curtain on their pre-season tour of the Far East.
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