The murder of Lisa Holm’s killer, Nerijus Bilevicius, in a Latvian prison last year, was a coincidence. That is the prosecutor’s conclusion in the ongoing trial, reports P4 Skaraborg.
Lisa Holm was found dead in a work shed in Kinnekulle, five days after she disappeared from the cafe she worked at in June 2015.
On the same day, the then 35-year-old Nerijus Bilevicius was brought in for questioning.
He denied the crime, but was sentenced in both the District Court and the Court of Appeal to life imprisonment for the murder. Later, at his own request, he was transferred to a prison in his native Latvia to serve his life sentence there.
Trial is ongoing
In August last year, however, Nerijus Bilevicius was himself murdered, by another prisoner.
The trial against the suspected co-prisoner is now underway. According to Latvian media, it is about a man in his 40s. He is sentenced to life in prison for, among other things, raping a 14-year-old girl in 2001 and then murdering her mother and stepfather and setting fire to their house.
According to the prosecutor, everything points to the fact that Nerijus Bilevicius was murdered by chance, during an ongoing rage, reports P4 Skaraborg.
The prosecutor’s conclusion is that Nerijus was just a random victim, Vytenis Miskinis, a crime reporter at the Lithuanian newspaper Delfi, told the radio.