The fatal stabbing of a nine-year-old girl in a quiet England lane has brought renewed despair over Britain’s knife crime epidemic.
Lilia Valutyte was killed just yards from a cafe where her mother Lina was a regular customer, working on her tablet while her daughter played on the cobbles outside with her younger sister.
Detectives were last night questioning two suspects as residents of Boston in Lincolnshire struggled to comprehend the horrific attack.
It took place at around 6.30pm on Thursday – barely a week into the school holidays.
Residents described seeing a toy pram – thought to belong to Lilia’s sister – abandoned at the scene.
The killing comes less than two years after Roberts Buncis, 12, was stabbed more than 70 times by a teenager in a frenzied attack in the same market town.
In 2016 Boston had the highest murder rate of any comparable town in England and Wales.
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