The fruit picker accused of stabbing a 9-year-old girl to death is reported to have once been a highly educated altar boy.
Deividas Skebas, 22, was charged with killing Lillia Valutyte. I grew up in a small village called Leriunai about 10 miles from
He is believed to have spent most of his childhood there, and in his teens wore white robes to help the local Roman Catholic Church.
} According to the Mail Online, Skebas assisted the priest with weddings, baptisms, and masses at the red-brick Roman Catholic church.
About him as a boy, one villager told his Mail:
Another told the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas that Skevas was "a polite, kind, sincere and well-educated young man." As for the second person, Sukebas is always a polite and friendly young man.
They added:
"He had no suspicions. He didn't seem to be doing anything wrong. He was cute as ever."
Skebas' mother, Daiva Skebienė, 42, owns a flower shop in Utena.
She and her Skebas father, her Darius Skebas, reportedly live with her 18-year-old daughter in an apartment in the village.
Skebas is believed to have worked with his father in Norway before moving to England to work in a factory in Lincolnshire.
He is in custody to appear in Lincoln Criminal Court for his September 19 plea and pretrial hearing. At about 6:20 p.m. on July 28, he was sitting next to his five-year-old sister.
Her mother, who was working at a café when the tragedy struck,said she heard one of her daughter's screams. '' At the time.
35-year-old Lina Savicke told the Sunday Mirror: I heard someone calling me, ``Mother! I saw them dead."
Lina also described how Lithuanian national Skevas' mother Daiva called her to offer her support after the July 28 tragedy.
She said: I come from a very good family. ''
