A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl playing outside her mother's embroidery shop in Lincolnshire has been found guilty of murder.
Deividas Skebas, 26, stabbed Lilia Valutyte in the heart as she played with a hula hoop on a street in Boston town centre on 28 July 2022.
Skebas, a Lithuanian who has schizophrenia and moved back to the UK just weeks the attack, had denied murder but admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility.
Lilia's mother, Lina Savickiene, said in a statement she had found her daughter "covered in blood and with the hoop around her".
She initially thought "something might have happened" with the hula hoop and described shouting for help while trying to cover her daughter's wounds as she became "pale".
Jurors were told there was no dispute that Skebas had killed Lilia but they had to decide what his state of mind was at the time.
Defence barrister Andrew Campbell-Tiech KC told Lincoln Crown Court that Skebas, who appeared via videolink from the high security Rampton Hospital, was "quite obviously deluded".
The court Skebas had told police he had "the power to resurrect" Lilia if they contacted "his controller in Nasa".
"Treating clinicians doubt that he (Skebas) will recover. His future is not one that any of us would wish for ourselves or our children," Mr Campbell-Tiech said.
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