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The crime was committed in 2019. The Šiauliai Regional Court reports on June 24, 2006, at approximately 6:00 am in Agluonų village in Akmen Ak district.
O. Rakštys and S. Jonaitis, breaking the door of the house where cohabitants SJ and PV lived, broke into the apartment and attacked the woman and man who were there. In order to arouse the fear that SJ was lying on the bed and not calling for help, O. Rakštys threw a radio receiver at him.
Then both men rushed to beat up the woman’s roommate. 42 m. PV was hit with his hand, kicked. As medical experts later discovered, a man died at least 17 times in various parts of the body, due to multiple bone fractures and injuries to internal organs.
The defendants confirmed that on the fateful day the sister of O. Rakščius, who had previously been a friend of the defendant S. Jonaitis, was comforted that strangers wanted to put her in a car and take her to the forest to rape her. Without thinking for a long time, O. Rakštys and S. Jonaitis went in search of the alleged attackers and drove to the village of Agluonai in a friend’s car.
In court, both men said that they had not tried to kill the victims, had not met them before, had never communicated with them and had not been with them. In court, O. Rakštys fully admitted his guilt, only saying that he could not recall all the circumstances of the crime. S. Jonaitis pleaded guilty in part, only categorically denying that at the time O. Rakštys struck PV, he did not keep the victim under pressure.
The panel of judges of the court’s Criminal Cases Division, which examined this case, stated that the circumstance that mitigates the responsibility of the defendant O. Rakščius is that he confessed to killing PV on the grounds of hooligan and threatened to kill SJ or harm seriously his health.
No mitigating circumstances have been established for the responsibility of the accused S. Jonaitis. The court determined that the records of the criminal case show that the defendant treated his actions during the incident only as pushing the victim, holding her briefly and giving him two blows that did not cause her death, thus avoiding responsibility for a very serious crime, his testimony during the investigation and in court are inconsistent, did not seek to mitigate the consequences of the crime.
In the aggravating circumstances of the defendants, the court recognizes that they committed the crimes with a group of accomplices under the influence of alcohol and psychotropic substances, and this influenced the commission of the crimes.
These circumstances were proven by the data of the case, the testimonies of the accused about their intoxication during the commission of the crimes, the conclusions of a specialist regarding the concentration of alcohol and psychotropic substances found in the blood and urine of the accused.
It was found that they were intoxicated with alcohol and psychotropic substances before the time of the formation of the intentional crime and this suppressed their self-control, so that alcohol intoxication influenced the commission of the crime.
The defendant O. Rakštys committed two crimes, which are classified in the categories of minor and very serious crimes. He is 25 years old, has been previously convicted 4 times, has been released from criminal responsibility once for reconciliation with the victim, has been administratively sanctioned, has current administrative sanctions, is not registered in the addiction treatment registry, is single, has a young daughter, worked until her arrest, was affirmatively characterized by a former employer.
The defendant S. Jonaitis committed a criminal act, which belongs to the category of very serious crimes. He is 22 years old, was once convicted as a minor, administratively sanctioned, has administrative sanctions in force, is not registered in the addiction treatment registry, is not married, works and is positively characterized by the labor administration.
The court found O. Rakstis guilty of the crimes committed and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. S. Jonaitis was found guilty by a court and sentenced to 9 years in prison for the crime committed.
This judgment has not entered into force and can be appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Lithuania.
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