July 11, 2023 3.29 pm This story is over 11 months old

Killer of Lilia Valutyte to be detained in Rampton hospital indefinitely

He stabbed the nine-year-old near her Boston home

A Lithuanian man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death just three weeks after entering the UK was today (Tues) sentenced to an unlimited hospital order.

Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound to the heart as she played with a hula-hoop and another young child in Fountain Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire, last summer.