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This crime, which had a great impact on the city community, was committed on November 10 last year in Šiauliai, when a woman who had left work was attacked on Dubijos Street. It was established that on the fateful day V. Vitkus, placing a knife to the woman’s neck and demanding to hand over the bag, immediately moved away from the injured shoulder and began to run.
However, the attacked Šiauliai man grabbed the stranger behind his clothes, believing that he should retrieve his bag. Trying to keep the bag, V. Vitkus stabbed the victim with a knife in the side and ran away with the loot.
The injured victim was able to get to the spouse’s workplace near the incident. Doctors and police were soon called to the victim.
According to medical experts, the woman’s liver and other internal organs were injured. The wounded man was treated in the hospital for some time.
The kidnapped bag contained the victims’ wallet, mobile phone, tablet, bank payment card and other items. A wallet without a bank card or cash was found in the southern district of the city a few hours after the incident.
V. Vitkus soon used the victim’s bank payment card: he managed to buy goods for more than 40 euros, but in another attempt the man could not buy for more than 100 euros, because the amount allowed by the payment method without Contact. When the merchandise was tried again, the bank card was already blocked.
According to the representative of the Šiauliai Regional Court, Vytautas Jončas, at the court hearing, V. Vitkus pleaded completely guilty and said that that day, already at dusk, he arrived in Šiauliai to meet an acquaintance, he wanted to buy the so-called dose, he was in abstinence, but his acquaintance disappeared with money.
Then he put his belongings in the luggage storage compartment at the bus station and went to commit a crime: to get money.
“I went to the courtyards in front of the bus station, I saw a woman, I approached her and put a knife around her neck and said: ‘Don’t call, give me your bag,'” said the criminal in court. “I took my bag and started running, but the woman caught up with me, so I stabbed her in the side with a knife.”
V. Vitkus stated that his objective then was to avoid arrest.
The defendant admitted that he took a wallet out of the seized bag and threw it away. He soon collected his belongings at the station and took a taxi.
Vitkuss said the wallet had about 15 euros and a bank card. At the store, he bought a block of Marlboro cigarettes for almost 42 euros, paid with a hijacked contactless card, then tried to use that card two more times, but failed.
What the sellers said when they did not pay with a bank card, the man explained that he did not remember. The wallet and bank card were discarded.
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In court, he also pointed out that his drug intoxication influenced the commission of the crime.
“I thought the police were looking for me and wanted to avoid arrest when I stabbed a woman with a knife, and I was stunned, not very aware of what I was doing,” he said.
At that time, the victim recounted how he had been attacked: “I stopped in the courtyard, heard footsteps, I turned around and saw a man approaching to look at me. He was sure the latter would ask for cigarettes or something. When the man approached, he murmured something, pressed something thin against his neck, grabbed my bag, and ran to the side of Station Street. I ran after me, caught up with it, grabbed my bag, and stretched it out. Then the man hit me while turning, after a moment I felt a blow to my stomach, then a pain. “
The court that examined this case stated that the evidence gathered in the case and examined at the judicial hearing uncontroversially confirmed that V. Vitkus had committed the criminal acts of which he is accused. The court noted that the defendant fully admitted his guilt in the commission of the criminal offenses against him, explained in detail and consistently (insofar as he claimed to recall) the circumstances of the commission of the criminal offenses, and revealed the mechanism of its commission.
The court determined that V. Vitkus had committed the intentional criminal acts charged with being already convicted of intentional crimes, for which he is a repeat offender, and the court considers this to be an aggravating circumstance.
For the criminal acts committed, the court found V. Vitkus guilty and sentenced him to a generalized final sentence: imprisonment of 6 years and 6 months. V. Vitkus was recognized as a dangerous repeat offender.
The victim of V. Vitkus was sentenced to 20 thousand. EUR for non-material damage, as well as EUR 56 for material damage. In addition, the convict will have to pay more than 5,000. Eur for the treatment of the victim, even more than 3 thousand. Eur for sickness benefit paid to the victim.
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