Deividas Skebas, who is alleged to have fatally stabbed nine-year-old Lilia Valuyte outside her Lincolnshire home last year, will instead be judged in a trial of facts.
Mourners have gathered on the streets of Boston in Lincolnshire this morning for the funeral of nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte who was stabbed to death earlier this year.
The grandmother of Lilia Valutyte, nine, who died after a stabbing in Lincolnshire last month set fire to a hotel while her relatives were inside - on the night of her daughter s wedding.