Man guilty of murdering nine-year-old girl while she played on street

A man who stabbed a nine-year-old in the heart while she played with a hula hoop in the street has been convicted of murder.Lilia Valutyte was attacked by Deividas Skebas, 26, in the town centre of Boston, Lincolnshire, on July 28 2022, while she was playing outside her mother’s embroidery shop.The Lithuanian defendant admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but was convicted of murder by a jury at Lincoln Crown Court on Thursday.