The Šiauliai District Court sentenced a woman to nine months in prison for defacing a car.
According to the court's press release, the defendant SK was sentenced to a term of imprisonment without intensive supervision.
The woman is also ordered to participate in a behavioral correction program, work or be registered with the Employment Service throughout the entire period of the prison sentence. In addition, SK will have to pay the victim EUR 4 in material and EUR 900 in non-material damages, and pay the victim EUR 150 in attorney's fees.
According to the court, the defendant denied her guilt. She stated that on the morning of April 2024, 27, she was in the yard of a residential building with her daughter, pushing her on a scooter. The woman claimed that she was near the Maserati car, but did not touch or scratch it. SK stated in court that her husband scratched the car
The court, having assessed all the case materials, concluded that the aforementioned statements of the accused were only a defense version chosen by her in order to avoid imminent criminal liability.
In court, the defendant's husband SK confirmed that he had scratched the car, but the court considered this to be solely an attempt to help his wife SK avoid criminal liability.
According to the court, the defendant SK's guilt for damaging someone else's property - the Maserati car - is substantiated by the witness's testimony during the trial, which is confirmed by the victim's and another witness's explanations.
A witness testified in court that she noticed a neighbor through the window, squatting near the passenger-side rear wheel of their family's Maserati. She saw the woman stand up, walk to the passenger-side front door, and, standing right next to the side of their car, holding her daughter on a scooter with one hand, lean over and scratch the car with what she believed was a metal object.
The victim and the witness indicated that the motive for the car being scratched was a disagreement over two unpurchased parking spaces in the yard, as several years ago, the accused SK had indicated to the witnesses that their family could not park their car in that place, after which the accused and her husband, if it was necessary to drive the car from the place where the Maserati was parked at the time of the incident, would park the second family car in such a way that both spaces were occupied.
The court's verdict may be appealed to the Šiauliai Regional Court.
Gytis Pankūnas (ELTA)
