Imprisoned for the rest of his life, the Doctor rushes to freedom: his mother would be accepted to live.

Mothers would be accepted to live and work.

Henrikas Daktaras, who has been called the leader of the Kaunas criminal world and sentenced to life in prison, is asking the court for the second time to impose a limited prison sentence. The law allows prisoners who have spent more than 20 years behind bars to exercise this right, but in Lithuania these requests are only granted in exceptional cases.

The administration of the Pravieniškės Correctional Institution submitted an application to the Kaunas Regional Court to grant H. Daktar a fine for his release. The law establishes that when an inmate expresses such a wish, the heads of the penitentiary center collect the material that characterizes him and send it to the court that made the decision for its consideration along with the request. The letter addressed to the court mentions that H. Daktaras is currently working in a wood processing workshop, violated established procedure three times and was promoted 13 times, and is currently compensating the awarded claim.

According to a spokesman for the prison, the risk of H. Doctor committing a repeat offense is currently moderate, decreasing 8 points in the year, from 88 to 80 under the OASys system.

The court received a letter from H. Daktar’s mother, Jadvyga Daktarienė, in which she stated that she would give the released son a job in the “Ramunė” shop that she runs and that she would accept him to live with her at home.

This is H. Doctor’s second request that he be sentenced to a fixed prison term and given hope of his release. This time, new data about Henytė’s work was presented to the court, receiving much encouragement and praise, participating in the Bible study program.

To mitigate this provision, the prosecutor, who opposed the sanction imposed on H. Doctor, mentioned that the detainee has not yet been completely corrected and has not yet admitted his guilt. As a result, there is no objective reason to believe that the risk to society has been reduced to such an extent that the legal benefit can be applied.

Chaplains Spared No Praise: They Study the Bible and Love Family

On this occasion, the defense of the 63-year-old Brother Doctor ensured that two clergymen, chaplains who worked in the correctional facility, expressed their opinion about the criminal sentenced to life imprisonment.

“I have known H. Doctor since 2019, I meet him once a month. At first he gave the impression of having a strong personality, searching for the truth. He was not always on time, sometimes he was late for work. A person must be obedient to the authorities, which leads to difficulties with representatives of the criminal world.

His attitude towards society, towards power is changing. In personal consultations, he mentioned that he would never do what he was in the past, “said Kęstutis Kulakauskas, director of the Lithuanian Association of Chaplains.

The clergyman mentioned that Henytė, who was imprisoned behind bars, not only pays close attention to Bible studies, but also invites other prisoners.

The chaplain communicating with H. Doctor, pastor of the Baptist community Tomas Bartkus, said that he had known the prisoner for about a year and a half and communicates once a week.

“A morally and spiritually strong person, interested in world events, survives the Covid-19 wave that has hit the entire world. I have discovered that he loves his family very much. His love for family and God are the fundamental values ​​of de for life, “said Chaplain T. Bartkus in court and asked to comply with a request for suspension of the custodial sentence.

The chaplain said that Henytė not only loves her family very much, but is also ready to return to society and integrate into it.

The Doctor himself told the court that he would change his lifestyle once he had a chance to be released.

“If a respected court gave me hope of being released, I would go to school. It is never too late to do so.

Looking back now, I am so sorry that I lived such a life. Not only I, but my 83-year-old mother, wife, children, and grandchildren suffer as a result.

Whatever decision a respected court makes, I believe this decision will be correct, “said H. Daktar, who attended the hearing remotely.

Aivaras Mikšta, who was recognized as a victim in his case, also asked to give H. Daktar the hope of releasing him. This man, who was not only a rapist but was also kidnapped by bandits, did not claim any rights over Henyte.

He called himself sick and old

Instead of imprisonment until the end of his life, he was sentenced to a fixed prison term, after which it would be possible to board a ship. H. Doctor also asked the court in late 2019.

This time, a prisoner who attended a court hearing remotely tried to insult the court both because of his age and his health problems.

“Please calculate my age, soon it will be 62. Until I was 60 years old I thought I was immortal, but diseases passed me one after another, I had a stroke. Now I am a sick old man. Soon I will be 62 years old, who needs me, fades away, it’s time to die. I walk here, I limp, ”Henytė said.

His lawyers provided data that H. Daktar, in fact, has been diagnosed with various diseases: glaucoma, cardiovascular pathology, as a result of which a partial work capacity has been established.

Ignore the “rules” of criminals, began to work behind bars

At the end of 2019, when examining the request of the Kaunas Regional Court doctor, an important circumstance became apparent: Kaunas, once called the “authority” of the criminal world, began to ignore the “traditions” of criminals.

The court received information that Henytė works in a correctional home in a wood processing workshop. Under the dispositions of the prisoner subculture, the so-called panics, the self-respecting criminals and, moreover, their leaders, cannot do any work.

“The very fact that a person works in a custodial institution already means that they do not support the subculture. According to her, Vytautas Sirvydis, a lawyer, said that it is disrespectful to work according to her, and especially with “authority”, this is how H. Daktaras is presented in the media

The prisoner is not bored: weaves, carves, creates poems

From the material provided by the lawyers, it can be deduced that the Kaunas mobster, imprisoned for life for many crimes, has changed beyond recognition. It seems that Henytė does not spend time behind bars, he found new activities and hobbies here.

The documents presented by the defenders note that H. Daktaras participated in a poetry contest, wove scarves, printed Easter eggs, participated twice in the most beautifully decorated chamber competitions, as well as the convict “battle” and won the first place.

The famous prisoner also wove knitwear for babies in charge of the crisis center, received a letter from the apostolic nunciature, made wooden Easter decorations, attended Carito’s course, played table tennis and took the Constitution test. And currently Henytė participates in the biblical studies program of the public institution “Visit the Prisoner”.

He was repeatedly asked to commute his sentence.

In December 2019, the Kaunas Regional Court rejected the provision of the correctional facility and ruled that at that time there were no grounds to commute H. Daktar’s sentence.

The court determined that the convicted man’s conduct in the penitentiary is not flawless, and he himself, even more than 20 years after the very serious crimes for which he is serving his sentence, does not admit his guilt and considers himself sentenced too harshly.

H. Daktaras was convicted by the Klaipėda Regional Court in June 2013 for running a criminal association in 1993-2000.

It was stated that its participants were armed with explosives and explosives, firearms used and planned to commit crimes: murder, extortion, robbery.

H. Daktaras addressed the Klaipėda Regional Court earlier this year, and later the Court of Appeal, requesting the commutation of the sentence imposed on him. These courts later dismissed their complaints.

H. It is considered that the start of the imprisonment of the doctor is the year 2009, but the time spent in prison is also included in the penalty according to the previous convictions of the Vilnius Regional Court in February 1997 and December 2006.

In December 2008, the court allowed the doctor to be arrested, but he went into hiding and was arrested in the fall of 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria.