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Judge Danutė Švitinienė announced the verdict on Friday morning. The resonance case was heard behind closed doors. The sentence can be appealed within 14 days.
The Panevėžys Regional Court announced on Friday that a decision had been made to acquit the accused of murder because it had not been proven that he had participated in the crime.
Victims’ claims for moral damages were also dismissed, at least until a real killer was found.
The court decided to hand over the task to the prosecutor so that he could take the necessary steps to identify the real murderer.
On January 30 of this year, the Panevėžys Regional Court began hearing a criminal case related to 2017 a seventeen-year-old high school student was murdered at the end of It will be recalled that in 2000 T. Jankūnas, a resident of Panevėžys, was charged de On December 10, at approximately 9:00 p.m., in Panevėžys, in the part of the Panevėžys A. Lipniūnas Progymnasium stadium, located near Dariaus ir Girėno str. 21 and 25 houses, he once stabbed a 17-year-old DG with a knife in a life-threatening part of the body: the chest, for which he deliberately killed him.
T. Jankūnas, a resident of Panevėžys, was charged with the intentional murder of a minor.
“The single stab to the chest was fatal,” the prosecutor’s office said late last year. According to the prosecution, although the body of the young man was not found in a remote location, but near an apartment building, the police were called immediately and then the suspect could not be identified.
The investigation team formed worked intensively for almost six months before the suspect, T. Jankūnas, who was still a minor at the time, was arrested. At a press conference at the end of last year, Chief Prosecutor Donatas Skrebiškis of the 1st Prosecution Division of the Panevėžys Regional Prosecutor’s Office stated that, according to the investigation data collected, the murdered young man and the suspect lived in the same residential district of Panevėžys.
By the way, the prosecutor noted that the murder tool had not been found. The pre-trial investigation into the young man’s murder lasted almost two years. During that time, more than 120 witnesses were interviewed for assignments and exams, which took a long time to complete. The file consists of more than 22 volumes.
The suspect exercised his right and refused to testify throughout the pre-trial investigation.
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