Lilia Valutyte: Deividas Skebas who killed nine-year-old woman in Lincolnshire avenue given indefinite hospital order
A person who killed a nine-year-old woman by stabbing her within the coronary heart as she performed on the street has been given an indefinite hospital order.
Deividas Skebas was unanimously discovered to have bodily dedicated the act of killing Lilia Valutyte, regardless of a court docket deciding he was unfit to plead or face a standard trial on account of his psychological well being.
Lilia suffered a single stab wound to the chest in Boston, Lincolnshire, on the afternoon of 28 July final 12 months.
Deividas Skebas outdoors Lincoln Crown Court in August
She was enjoying with a hula hoop on the time.
Jurors took round quarter-hour to seek out Skebas, 23, was the woman’s attacker after a two-day trial of the information at Lincoln Crown Court.
The court docket heard Skebas, from Lithuania, got here to the UK for a second time from his dwelling nation on 20 July final 12 months and 6 days later was seen shopping for a Sabatier paring knife from Wilko in Boston city centre.
A forensic officer close to the scene of the killing
CCTV footage captured him strolling round Boston earlier than operating in the direction of Lilia at about 6.15pm as she performed with a hula hoop outdoors the store the place her mom labored in Fountain Lane.
He pulled a knife from behind his again earlier than stabbing the woman and operating previous an off-duty police officer, who was about to comply with however stopped after listening to screams.
Lilia was pronounced lifeless at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital at 7.11pm.
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Pic: Lincolnshire Police
In an interview with police, Skebas mentioned: “I grabbed the knife and I stabbed her.”
She instructed the jury: “It’s been an unusually short case and you have dealt with issues that if this were a normal trial would have taken a couple of weeks.
“You have handled some very disagreeable materials and I’m afraid that that’s what juries do.”
If his psychological well being improves, Skebas, who’s charged with homicide, might face a standard trial.
In a trial of the information, a defendant can’t be criminally convicted however the jury have to be happy past all affordable doubt that they bodily carried out the act, whereas not contemplating intent or frame of mind.