The grandmother of murdered nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte has been accused of setting fire to a hotel with her family inside on her daughter's wedding night. Little Lilia was stabbed to death while playing with her younger sister on Fountain Lane in Boston, Lincolnshire last month.
Her mum Lina Savicke, 36, was working at a café nearby when she heard the screams of her younger daughter and rushed outside to find Lilia's body on the street. Deividas Skebas, 22, has since been charged with the murder. The fruit picker, who is originally from a village near the north-eastern Lithuanian city of Utena, is currently being held at HMP Wakefield.
However, it has now come to light that Lilia's grandmother, Inga Papstaitiene, allegedly started a blaze at a hotel where her relatives were staying - including Lilia and Lina - in September 2019. The 55-year-old was found guilty for the arson attack and sentenced to prison by a Lithuanian court in June. The gran allegedly caused the inferno after a furious row with her new son-in-law Aurelijus Savickas, the Mirror reports.
