Man who stabbed nine-year-old to death in Lincolnshire found guilty of murder

Family of Lilia Valutyte, killed by Deividas Skebas in July 2022, say she will always live in our hearts'

A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death in 2022 has been found guilty of her murder.

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's embroidery shop in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022.