The 17-year-old murderer, who shocked the whole of Lithuania with cruelty, suffered too much and will receive solid compensation.

This was decided by the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (SACL), which ordered Justinas Juzėnas, a five-time recidivist, to pay 3,000 euros in compensation for non-pecuniary damage. This money must be paid to the convict by the Vilnius Correctional Institution representing the Lithuanian state, which has taken over the duties and responsibilities of the now closed Lukišk nows pre-trial detention.

It was due to the inadequate conditions of detention in Lukiškės that the cold-blooded murderer J. Juzėnas awarded compensation; It was calculated for the last three years (from May 2016 to February 2019, when he was transferred to the Marijampolė penitentiary). It is true that the prisoner asked the court to award him compensation for the entire period of his detention since 2008. September in Lukiškės: he had estimated the damages at 85 thousand. EUR. However, the judges concluded that the convicted person had breached the statute of limitations for the claim for non-pecuniary damage in the period prior to 2016. May.

J. Juzėnas, who brought the Lithuanian state to court, stated in his complaint that he was not guaranteed privacy during his detention in Lukiškės, using a sanitary unit installed in the cell, which was separated from the living space by a wall and a curtain no. greater than 1.5 m in height.

“The installation of the wall did not meet the requirements of hygiene standards, because a separate room must be installed from the sanitary unit, I could be monitored by both supervisors and other inmates at all times,” said J. Juzėnas you had requested. the prison administration was told that the privacy curtains were up.

“The unexpected vigilance of officials while I was in charge of nature caused me dissatisfaction, anger and often conflict,” he said in a complaint.

In addition, the inmate complained that the cell was not equipped with ventilation, which generated an unpleasant odor when using the bathroom.

“There was also no guarantee of privacy when using the shower, as the partition was only 1.6m high and about 1m wide, so it could be monitored all the time through the observation window by the staff of the office (supervisors) or other people in the shower, “he said. A prisoner sentenced to the harshest sentence.

She noted that she felt extremely bad about the insecure privacy: “She experienced spiritual experiences, psychological shocks, emotional depression, feelings of inferiority, and unpleasant physical experiences.” He also emphasized that he had a ‘nervous system disorder’ that made him more nervous.

At that time, the Vilnius Penitentiary Center did not agree with the allegations made in J. Juzėnas’ complaint and explained that the officers of the supervisory post must constantly monitor the internal procedures of detainees and convicts to prevent conflict situations and the occurrence of extraordinary events “.

Furthermore, in the response to the complaint it is noted that in the cells of Lukišk thes the windows were adapted to naturally ventilate through the windows, which meets the requirements of hygiene regulations, and the prisoners are taken to showers by officials of the same sex.

“The convicted person did not address the administration of the institution for the complaints contained in the complaint.” Certain restrictions on the privacy and freedom of movement of convicted persons and the negative experiences and experiences associated with them are generally an unavoidable consequence of detention in terms of its nature, purposes and safe execution. “

However, the judges took a different position: in SACL practice it was repeatedly stated that the separation of a sanitary unit in the interrogation isolation cell from the rest of the cell’s living room with a wall of 1.5 m height was not considered an adequate measure. Installation of a sanitary unit in terms of privacy.

“Since the sanitary unit is not completely separated from the living space, it is visible to other people inside the cell, as well as to the officials who open the cell door,” according to the judges, according to the jurisprudence of the European Court. of Human Rights violates the right to privacy

“The court has also determined that the separation of the living space and the bathroom with a curtain does not provide the necessary privacy for the prisoners,” the judges cited the Strasbourg practice.

According to them, the Lukiškės Penitentiary Administration, by not guaranteeing the privacy of the convicted person through the use of sanitary facilities, “did not act as required by law, did not fulfill the functions assigned to it by legal acts, for which reason there are reasons to establish illegal actions. “

According to the court, J. Juzėnas’ right to privacy was violated not only when he was imprisoned with another prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, but also when he lived alone in the cell.

“The fact that a person remained alone in a cell does not in itself mean that their right to privacy was not violated, as officials may have seen when using the bathroom, but at that time the violation of their right to privacy privacy could not be as intense as imprisoning him, as a person, “said the SACL panel of judges in the final sentence.

They consider that the appropriate amount to be awarded for the non-pecuniary damage suffered by J. Juzėnas is 3,000. EUR.

“To determine the non-pecuniary compensation to be awarded to the applicant, it will also be taken into account that the case did not establish that the defendant’s representative deliberately violated or inhumanly treated the dignity of the victim,” the court emphasized.

J. Juzėnas was sentenced to the harshest sentence in 2010. – The Panevėžys Regional Court ruled that the killer could never be expected to recover and was therefore permanently isolated from society. According to the verdict, which was not modified by the higher courts, J. Juzėnas began committing crimes when he was a minor, he committed more and more violent acts, and faced with the sexual abuse and murder of a minor, he had seriously damaged his health.

“J. Juzen committed an unmotivated murder due to extremely low motives, in cold blood and with extreme brutality he took the life of a young woman who did nothing wrong to the accused and had no influence on his behavior: he prepared for this crime in advance, took to the victim. to a remote place, where he hid the tools, which shows the very serious danger of the crime he committed for society ”, emphasized the judges who examined the criminal case.

The victim became a seventeen-year-old who was walking down the street.

According to the file, it was established that as early as 2008. September 13 At night, J. Juzėnas and his colleagues in Biržai saw a seventeen-year-old from the Kupiškis district walking down the street, who was persecuted for a long time until he he eventually got into a car and drove it to his ex’s house. friend Armandas Valeckis. Here, the girl was considered forced: the beaten minor was ordered to undress and orally satisfy J. Juzėnas and A. Valeckis (he was sentenced to 8 years in prison). This girl had to do it for a couple of hours.

When A. Valeckis’ mother saw the orgies, the men were kicked out of the house. However, the juvenile rapists did not even intend to release her: she got into a car and took her to a remote location in the Šilų forest of the Biržai district. Here she was killed as an unnecessary witness – J. Juzėnas was convinced that the minor would go to the police, so she was crushed (experts found that at least eighteen blows were hit) with crutches and a metal rod, which were later thrown in the lake and the killers hid their bodies in the forest.

J. Juzėnas, who had avoided responsibility for the crime in cold blood since the beginning of the investigation, was arrested a few days after the murder, at which point the body of the murdered minor was found in the forest that same day.

As was done in 2008. The crime that shocked the whole of Lithuania was revealed to officials by his friends who had participated in drinking with J. Juzėnas. One of them is A. Valeckis, convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. He admitted that the girl had been killed in front of him and had helped a friend hide her body.

During interrogations, A. Valeckis said that he and his friends were drunk that day, as well as the murdered one, who was taken home by J. Juzėnas. When the other girls went home at night and were only seventeen years old, J. Juzėnas asked her to undress. She did not agree, so J. Juzėnas used violence against her and forced him to meet him orally. “J. Juzėnas had that relationship with the girl several times: she drank alcohol and had sex again, ”said A. Valeckis.

She admitted she craved oral sex too, but couldn’t get excited about being drunk.

“After that, my mother came into the room and saw that J. Juzėnas was dealing with that girl – she started screaming, throwing everyone out of the house, she said she didn’t want to see those circuses,” said A. Valeckis.

Although not immediately, the company left home, got in the car, and drove away. According to A. Valeckis, the car was driven by the drunk J. Juzėnas, who for some reason decided to drive to the forest. They were accompanied by their friend Marius Galvanauskas (he was also convicted of rape of a minor and other crimes).

No witness required

“I thought we were going to smoke or have a drink, but when we went to the forest, J. Juzėnas hit the girl’s elbow with her elbow, she fell to the ground from the blow,” he said. – Then Justin ran to the car, took one of Galvanauskas’s crutches, approached the girl and began to beat her – the crutch even broke from the blows. Then he took another crutch and hit the girl again. I was very confused, I did not understand what was happening, I approached Justin and told him to stop. Then I turned that girl over on the leg, wanted to see if she was still alive. I was confused, I went back to the car and started it, I wanted to get out of the forest, but I didn’t leave either – Justin came to the car and took the metal key out of the trunk, he went to the girl again, but I don’t know what I did, I didn’t want to look. But after a few minutes, he came back and told me to help drag the girl further into the forest. “

A. Valeckis explained that he was afraid of J. Juzėnas, therefore, he obeyed his instructions: he got out of the car, went to the girl who was probably dead, carried her behind his left leg, J. Juzėnas, behind his right, and stretched his body about 20 meters.

“The girl’s legs were wrapped in a polyethylene bag. J. Juzėnas said that this had to be done so that our fingerprints did not remain,” said A. Valeckis.

According to him, J. Juzėnas did not end the execution: when he took a metal key, the body of a minor who showed no signs of life once again throbbed. And when he returned, he picked up the broken crutches, other scattered items, and left – on the way they dumped the tools of crime into the body of water.

“While driving, J. Juzėnas told me to shut up, not to say anything, because it would be bad,” said A. Valeckis. “When M. Galvanauskas asked why he was so cruel, J. Juzėnas replied that there would be no witnesses and that he would not write a statement to the police.”