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Mantas Bieliauskas has also been sentenced to 19 years in prison since his conviction.
Karolis Bieliauskas was previously sentenced to 17 years and Mantas Bieliauskas to 16 years in prison.
“The panel of judges, having assessed the fact that Karolis Bieliauskas had formed an organized group, was its leader, initiator of crimes, actively participated in the commission of crimes, as well as evaluated the aggravating circumstance, absence of mitigating circumstances, extremely painful consequences and irreversible, his behavior after the crime: he resumed his normal life, hid and destroyed evidence, his K. Bieliauskas must be sentenced to the most severe punishment, life imprisonment, for the crimes committed, “said the court.
At that time, the court intensified the sentence for Mantas Bieliauskas because, according to the court, it was imposed with too much leniency: Although this circumstance does not affect the classification of crimes, it must be taken into account when addressing the issue of individualization. of grief. M. Bieliauskas is married, has a small son, worked, was not previously convicted. According to the jury, these circumstances lead to the conclusion that his danger is not such that he must be isolated from society for the rest of his life ”.
Prosecutors and the parents, sister and ex-fiancée of the murdered who supported the state prosecutor’s office asked that the most severe punishment be imposed on the three cousins, who at that time sought lighter.
The court also sentenced 40,000 each of those convicted. The girls were murdered in non-pecuniary damage and ordered the confiscation of assets for undiscovered objects, recovering from the accused sums of money corresponding to the value of the assets.
In addition, they will have to pay 20 thousand for each sister of the murdered. EUR, and for the ex-fiancee – 15 thousand. to damage.
A more severe punishment is also imposed on Tomas Zagurskas from Kėdainiai, who was convicted of hijacking a vehicle belonging to a Latvian citizen and illegally using a firearm together with his cousins - the court decided to imprison the released man for 4 years. At that time, the court sentenced Algimantas Stankevičius from Marijampolė, who had been recognized as an accessory in the theft, seizure of an Audi A7 car and illegal possession of a firearm, to 4 years and 2 months in prison. Previously, they were sentenced to 2 fewer years in prison.
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The court hears the criminal case in private, in order to protect the privacy of the murdered person and his family. The state prosecution in this case was supported by two experienced prosecutors from the Department of Investigation and Organized Crime of the Attorney General’s Office: Artūras Urbelis and Gintas Ivanauskas.
I. Strazdauskaitė was kidnapped and killed in 2017. In March, while driving on the Kaunas-Vilnius highway, imitating a traffic accident, the cousins pushed a girl into the trunk of a car and then brutally killed her, the victim was beaten with several dozen shovels. did not use it, it was later found in the Jonava district, in a forest near the town of Žeimiai.
During the interviews, Mantas and Leonas explained to Bieliauskas that everything was “driven” by his cousin Karolis, who was the one who made the decision to push the girl in the trunk and not leave her on the way to the place where the car was hijacked. . Why, the cousins could not explain, that Karolis himself could not explain his unexpected decision.
When the decision was made to kill I. Strazdauskaitė, the men also decided to dispose of the car; they suspected that the police and a girl’s friend might actually be looking for them. The men who left the Audi A7 in a remote part of the forest may have returned to collect it, but the following day there were reports in the media about the disappearance of I. Strazdauskaitė.
It is suspected that the men were going to sell this car – it was Karolis, who had demonstrated a luxurious lifestyle in Kėdainiai, who was engaged in car reselling.
I. Strazdauskaitė was killed on the territory of the airfield the same night; all three suspects participated in the execution of the girl. The cousins were convinced that the girl would not be found, but later, when they were arrested and arrested, they themselves showed the criminals the grave of the victim.
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