Man guilty of murdering schoolgirl, 9, on street while she played with hula hoop

A man who stabbed a nine year old in the heart while she played with a hula hoop in a Lincolnshire street has been convicted of murder. Lilia Valutyte was attacked by Deividas Skebas in the Boston town centre on July 28, 2022, while she was playing outside her mother s embroidery shop. The Lithuanian defendant admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but was convicted of murder by a jury at Lincoln Crown Court. There was no dispute that Skebas, diagnosed with