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Vitas Plytnykas

Kill Total:

1

Kill place:

Angus, Scotland

Kill date:

29 March 2008

Victim(s):

Jolanta Bledaite

Date of Birth:

1967

Marital Status:

AKA:

Occupation:



29th March 2008, Jolanta was murdered at her flat in Arbroath 

Jolanta's head was found on the beach at Arbroath on 1st April 2008 by two sisters, aged eight and 11, who had been playing on the beach.. Police searching the sands found her hands later that same day. Four days later, a suitcase containing Jolanta's body was pulled from Arbroath harbor by a police underwater search team. Jolanta was murdered at the flat she shared with fellow Lithuanian Skirda in Brechin.

Accomplice  Aleksandras Skirda admitted his part in the murder.

4th March 2009, Plytnykas was found guilty of murder, he had denied the charge.

During the trial, the jury was shown CCTV footage of Plytnykas and Skirda on a bus to Arbroath carrying a plastic bag which had Ms Bledaite's head and hands inside.

Plytnykas, who is believed to be a former soldier, already has a conviction for manslaughter. He was jailed in 2001 in Germany after stabbing a man to death in a fight about money.

6th March 2009, Both men have been jailed, Plytnykas for 28 years, and Skirda for 20 years, both men will be deported at the end of their sentences.

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