CCTV footage shows nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte playing while she’s watched by her killer moments before the fatal attack
Distressing footage captures the moment Deividas Skebas observed Lilia Valutyte playing with her hula hoop before fatally stabbing her.
The CCTV recording released by Lincolnshire Police shows Skebas, then aged 22, loitering at the end of the street whilst the nine year old played outside her mother’s embroidery shop in Boston. Skebas, previously of Alcorn Green, Boston, can be observed waiting at the top of the road for pedestrians to pass, before approaching Lilia at approximately 6.15pm on July 28, 2022.
A separate CCTV clip captures Skebas, dressed in a grey T-shirt and dark trousers, fleeing from the scene moments afterwards.
Additional footage shows Skebas walking around the vicinity nearly an hour prior to the attack, and he was also recorded on camera purchasing the knife he used to stab Lilia at a Wilko store two days beforehand, on July 26, 2022, reports Lincolnshire Live.
Two additional video clips, believed to be from police body worn cameras, capture armed officers surrounding Skebas at a property and subsequently arresting him on July 30, 2022. In the video recording, a voice can be heard informing Skebas that “you are under arrest on suspicion of murder”, to which he responded “yeah”.
Skebas, now 26, had a background of mental health difficulties, and, following his arrest, he was deemed unfit to stand trial.
He was held in a secure hospital, and, at a trial of fact in 2023, he was determined to have been responsible for Lilia’s killing.
Subsequently, in Spring 2025, he was re-assessed and deemed fit to plead and participate in a trial. After a fortnight-long trial at Lincoln Crown Court, Skebas was convicted of murder on Thursday, 5 February, with sentencing set to take place at a future date.