The nine-year-old schoolgirl who was stabbed to death in broad daylight on a street in Lincolnshire has been named and pictured for the first time – as police continue to quiz two men in custody.
Innocent Lilia Valutyte, whose family were from Lithuania, was found on a quiet lane in Boston at around 6.20pm yesterday.
Heartbreaking pictures of her in happier times that emerged tonight show the little girl smiling as well as one image in which she is seen wearing wings and holding an eighth birthday balloon.
One local resident said they had seen an overturned doll’s pushchair on the side of the road as emergency services rushed to the scene after the attack.
Locals were left in ‘profound shock’ and the local MP appealing for national assistance to catch the killer.
One devastated local resident spoke for the community as he pleaded ‘She was just a little girl, how could anyone do this to a nine-year-old?’
