Killer sentenced to life in prison for trying to escape prison – another 7 years in prison



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According to the report of the Šiauliai Regional Court, according to the data of the case, the crime was committed late at night on January 28 this year in the Šiauliai preventive prison, when the convicted and detained have time to hand over personal computers to the personnel of the preventive prison. As usual, detainees are asked to leave cells and place their computers in a designated area or hand them over to officers.

Around 9:13 pm in the corridor of the regime corps, returning to his living cell, D. Kriaučiūnas attacked the officer next to this cell and wrapped his computer around her neck, pulled her towards her, placed a Sharp homemade tool to his neck and, threatening to kill the kidnapped caretaker, he brought to prevent other officers from approaching him, to open the door that separates the remand center and get him out of prison.

D. Kriaučiūnas, encircling the shoulder area with a basket belt and hugging the kidnapped woman’s neck with his left hand, married her, left the facilities of the regime body towards the isolation yard, demanded to open them in the Control Permit entrance door and pressed the officer several times. stabbed in the neck.

D. Kriaučiūnas also demanded that the officers from the remand center stay away and threatened to kill the officer. After the supervisors opened all the doors, D. Kriaučiūnas, marrying together, left the prison, crossed the street and, after releasing the woman, fled.

The fugitive did not run far, around 9.40 pm he was arrested on nearby Vilnius street.

In November 2004, the Šiauliai Regional Court sentenced D. Kriaučiūnas to life imprisonment for the extremely brutal murder and robbery of two girls. The crime committed by man caused an extraordinary echo in society.

The prosecutor, who supported the state prosecutor’s office in this criminal case, stated in her speech that the accused acted in an extremely dangerous and cold manner at the time of the event.

According to the prosecutor, the defendant himself did not deny the facts against him and D. Kriaučiūnas’ guilt is proven not only by the defendant himself, but also by the testimony of the victim’s witnesses and other materials in the case.

The state prosecutor claimed that D. Kriaučiūnas committed the crime as a repeat offender. For the crimes he committed, he proposed to the court that the man be found guilty and sentenced to 8 years in prison, combined with a previously imposed life sentence and the final sentence of life in prison.

In his speech, the defendant’s defense stated that his defendant was illegally imprisoned, according to him, D. Kriaučiūnas acted in the defense conditions necessary to defend his right to freedom during the event, he did not exceed his limits. The lawyer asked the court to acquit his defendant and dismiss the case.

In his closing speech, D. Kriaučiūnas stated that he had been imprisoned for more than 17 years for a crime that he had not actually committed. Trying to escape from the remand center, he said, is the last chance to defend the right to freedom.

D. Kriaučiūnas stated that he had already apologized for the minor kidnapping of the officer taken hostage, and the accused repeated his apologies in the final case. The man asked the court to acquit him.

The court found that the defendant acted extremely dangerously, in cold blood and carefully planned the crime.

There were no extenuating circumstances for the accused, aggravating the crime for being a repeat offender. The court, taking into account all the circumstances of the case, determined that the objectives of the sentence would be achieved through the imposition of custodial sentences for a limited time for the three crimes.

For the crime committed, the court sentenced D. Kriaučiūnas to 7 years in prison, this sentence was combined with the life sentence previously imposed and the final sentence was life imprisonment.

This judgment has not entered into force and can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal.



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