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The only stab with a knife was fatal. Admitting his guilt, V. Tankevičius stated that at the time of the incident he cut a sandwich and stabbed his friend without hating his insults.
The court ruled that V. Tankevičius was guilty of murder and sentenced to eight years in prison. A woman who lost her brother was sentenced to 5,000 for murder. moral damage.
In 2020 a serious crime was committed. on April 11, at approximately 8:40 p.m., in the living room. According to the case data, being intoxicated with alcohol (1.16 percent alcohol), V. Tankevičius deliberately stabbed the victim once in the chest with a knife.
The knife damaged the heart and lungs. Everything was complicated by an acute hemorrhage, inflammation of the brain, from which the victim died.
However, the sentence imposed on the murderer was too harsh, so he filed a complaint. After examining this, the Lithuanian Court of Appeal did not make V. Tankevičius happy: the sentence remained unchanged.
Failed isolation
In his appeal, the convicted V. Tankevičius requested to change the verdict of the Vilnius Regional Court and impose a lesser punishment and reduce the amount of non-pecuniary damage awarded to victim RS.
The convicted person stated in the complaint that he had been sentenced to too severe a custodial sentence because he did not want to kill his friend.
The man said that he accidentally hit the latter with a knife, and he himself fell on the knife. The convict did not think the man could die as a result.
According to the appellant, he wanted to provide medical attention to the injured friend, but did not do so. The convict did not run anywhere and waited for the police at the scene.
V. Tankevičius pointed out that he has no money to pay the victim 5,000. because he did not have a steady job before his arrest. He asked to pay attention to his lifestyle, that is, he has no parents and his sister refused to take care of him.
The condemned man also stated that he had a small son with whom he did not live, but who had cared for him before his arrest, earning special money to support him materially.
Killer version
The news portal tv3.lt previously wrote that the defendant V. Tankevičius fully admitted guilt for the criminal act charged against him at the court hearing. He explained that it was Saturday, he came home after work, where he, his sister and his brother lived at his sister’s house, and he decided to have a drink at home.
The brother had gone out to a neighboring town to the neighbor at that time, and when he returned, he said that he had to go find his girlfriend. A horse went to that town with his brother. There he also met the victim, who lived next to his brother’s girlfriend and was close to the house.
He knew the victim, they were friends. Before returning home, he had a drink with the victim, then offered to go to V. Tankevičius’s house together for another drink, and the victim agreed.
While there was no conflict, there were no fights with the victim. When he returned home, his brother and his girlfriend went out somewhere and V. Tankevičius started drinking with the victim. When the victim started drinking, he asked him to smoke, he replied no.
Then, according to the killer, a friend started holding on to him, touching him, yelling and insulting him in every way. At that moment, he himself was standing at the table, preparing a snack and holding a knife in his right hand. The victim stood behind him and insulted him with several words, shaking his shoulder.
V. Tankevičius was nervous because he was being insulted and, holding the knife by the handle in his right hand, he turned to the victim and stabbed him once. The victim then fell onto a folding chair standing next to the table.
The killer said he stabbed weakly as the victim approached. He claimed that the knife was poorly inserted and that the victim could have inserted it deeper when it fell. He stabbed the victim reluctantly, just because he was angry at her insults.
V. Tankevičius said that he did not want to pierce with a knife, he thought that the handle would hit him. Alcohol also influenced his actions because he was drunk at the time. If I’d been sober, I wouldn’t have.
It was too late to help
After the stab, he immediately picked up the victim, placed her on the bed, pulled out that knife, and dropped it under the bed. Then he saw that the victim was running bleeding from the mouth. He watched as if the victim was breathing.
V. Tankevičius picked up the phone. Remember that his hands were shaking. He pulled out a knife from under the bed and, with a knife in one hand and a phone in the other, he went out to see where his brother was. He wanted his brother to call an ambulance, but neither his brother nor his girlfriend were anywhere.
Returning inside, he saw a seriously injured friend fall onto his side. Only then did V. Tankevičius call an ambulance himself. Calling the medics, he said the man was injured and that they might be able to come see him, but he did not tell them that he had hurt him because he was scared.
Asked about breathing, he replied that he was not breathing. They told her to take her pulse, but she said it didn’t seem to be there. His hands were shaking. He said the ambulance would come to see. Doctors arrived in 15 minutes. and found that the man was dead.
Then an ambulance called the police and told V. Tankevičius to wait at the house, at the bank, not to enter. By then, his brother and his girlfriend had already returned. It is true that during the initial questioning, the killer tried to evade in every way, but eventually broke down and confessed.
He drank but he was a good man
The victim told RS in court that she is the killer’s sister and only knows about the incident because of the languages that spread in the village, since she lives 3 km away. She found out about the accident when her sister called her and told her that she had killed her brother.
The next day he and his son went to that town to find out what had happened there. The woman said that the brother drank, like everyone else, did not work officially, but was a laborer, never answered and helped everyone in the town, thus earning money.
When he drank, he was not in conflict, he was very upset, but he was not winning at anything. He divorced his wife, who now lives in Belarus, when he ended up in prison during the Soviet era for taking 3 rubles with kopecks from an old man he was drinking with.
After that, his brother was no longer sentenced, working on the farm. He had two children who were paid alimony after the divorce. The woman asked to be awarded compensation for material damage to cover the expenses of the funeral and moral damages to order the tomb, to build a monument a year later.
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