The crime of a 9-year-old girl in the middle of the street, in the town of Boston, in the east of England, while playing with his younger sister, he keeps shocked the whole country. In the last hours, the British police arrested a 22-year-old man as a suspect in the murder.
Lilia Valutyte died after being stabbed when most of his neighbors returned home from work, in the center of the English city located in the county of Lincolnshire, shortly after six in the afternoon on Thursday.
This Saturday, the agents who were looking for Lilia’s killer published images of a bearded man who had a blue shirt and black pants, and who was filmed moments before the attack.
The suspect of the crime who has already been arrested
“We urgently ask for the public’s help in identifying the man in these photographs, whom we want to speak to following the death of nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte,” the local police statement said. And he askedimmediately call 999“In case you know him.
hours later, his arrest was reached and the authorities reported that it was carried out “thanks to a combination of intelligence data and information provided by various citizens“. In that same note they thanked the citizens for their help while the investigation continues.
According to local media, the two girls entertained themselves while their mother, who allegedly coordinated an employee recruitment service, worked from a table in a cafeteria. less than three meters away.
The corner where Lilia Valutyte was murdered
According to “The Sun”, there is a possibility that the alleged perpetrator was a man mad at motherLina, originally from Lithuania, because he hadn’t paid him for a job he owed him.
The event caused shock in the United Kingdom, which is going through a wave of crimes with bladed weapons that has been taking place for several months.
The Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, expressed her shock at the death of the girl on her Twitter account, assuring that the police forces have “all the support to carry out a thorough investigation.”
Meanwhile, Paul Skinner, leader of the Boston City Council, said the city was “united in mourning.”
“We cannot for a second imagine the pain the young woman’s family and friends are going through, and our sincerest condolences to them.” The flag at the council offices would fly half-staff as a sign of respect, Skinner added.
Previously, the authorities had released two other suspects without charge, after indicating that they considered what happened “an isolated event“.
Hours after Lilia’s murder, her schoolmates remembered her in a kind of altar in her memory that they placed in the San Botolph church, known as Boston Stum, just 100 meters from the scene of the crime.
The altar in homage to Lilia in a church in the area where she was murdered
There they lit candles and placed images of the little girl to honor her: “She was nice. He liked Harry Potter. It was pretty quiet. She was a good friend. she liked to dance”, A friend from school told the Daily Mail newspaper.
“She was a lovely girl. She was nice, funny, affectionate and attentive, ”described another companion.
With information from EFE
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