{"id":19083,"date":"2026-02-05T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19083"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:42:43","slug":"man-who-stabbed-nine-year-old-to-death-in-lincolnshire-found-guilty-of-murder-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19083","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed nine-year-old to death in Lincolnshire found guilty of murder | Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death<\/a> in 2022 has been found guilty of her murder.<\/p>\n

Deividas Skebas, a 26-year-old Lithuanian man, killed Lilia Valutyte by stabbing her through the heart while the child was playing with a hula hoop outside her mother\u2019s embroidery shop in Boston, Lincolnshire<\/a>, on 28 July 2022.<\/p>\n

Skebas, then 22, had entered the UK legally just three weeks prior to killing Lilia, and was working as a fruit picker. He had a history of illnesses, including schizophrenia, which his legal defence argued stopped him from understanding the full extent of his actions.<\/p>\n

A jury in Lincoln crown court deliberated for seven and a half hours on Thursday, eventually returning a guilty verdict by a majority of 11 to one.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Deividas Skebas has been in a high security psychiatric hospital since 2022.<\/span> Photograph: Joe Giddens\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a victim impact statement read out by her husband and Lilia\u2019s stepfather Aurelijus Savickas, Lilia\u2019s mother, Lina Savickiene, wrote that the grief she and her family had suffered was \u201cnot something you recover from\u201d.<\/p>\n

Savickiene, who had found her daughter after the attack and cradled her body, wrote that \u201csometimes terrifying thoughts overwhelm the mind and during this trial there have been many, many more. Why her? Why us? The questions remain unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading his own words, Savickas, who had known Lilia since she was three, described his stepdaughter as having a \u201cbeautiful soul\u201d, adding that she \u201cwill always live in our hearts, you are forever loved, forever missed\u201d.<\/p>\n

During the trial, the prosecutor Christopher Donnellan KC said that \u201cthis deliberate murder was clearly a wicked act\u201d and that Skebas was aware of the severity of the crime when he committed it, adding: \u201cHe knew his conduct was wrong. He knew he was killing a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representing Skebas, Andrew Campbell-Tiech KC told the jury that there was no debate about the fact that his client had killed Lilia, but that his mental state meant he should instead be convicted for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, which he has previously admitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Campbell-Tiech went on to describe Skebas as \u201cquite obviously deluded\u201d and said that clinicians who had treated him doubted he would recover. Skebas attended the trial and verdict virtually from Rampton hospital, a high security psychiatric hospital, which was transferred to from prison in December 2022.<\/p>\n

The court also heard that after the killing, Skebas believed he had \u201cthe power to resurrect\u201d Lilia, but could only do so if the police contacted \u201chis controller in Nasa\u201d.<\/p>\n

Skebas is due to be sentenced on 25 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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