{"id":444854,"date":"2026-02-25T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:32:08","slug":"deividas-skebas-jailed-for-minimum-of-25-years-for-murder-of-lilia-valutyte-in-boston-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444854\/","title":{"rendered":"Deividas Skebas jailed for minimum of 25 years for murder of Lilia Valutyte in Boston &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;You did the unthinkable&#8217;published at 11:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Eleanor Maslin<br \/>BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warning: This post contains distressing details<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Justice Choudhury says Skebas had bought an &#8220;ordinary kitchen knife&#8221; from a shop, which he later used to kill Lilia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the day of the murder, he says Skebas walked around and around the same area in Boston, apparently in search of a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You kept returning to the same area around Fountain Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At 18:15 you did the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You headed straight towards her, pulled out the knife and as soon as you approached the unsuspecting Lilia, you plunged the knife into her heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says Skebas had later said he killed Lilia as he was &#8220;controlled by a chip implanted by NASA&#8221; along with voices in his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;You did the unthinkable&#8217;published at 11:40 GMT 11:40 GMT Eleanor MaslinBBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Warning: This post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-444854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}