A participant in mixed martial arts competitions from Jurbarkas became famous outside the ring: he brutally beat a local schoolboy and killed his girlfriend’s father

On Thursday, the Kaunas District Court acquitted the Marijampolė prison, in which a sportsman currently handing down sentences, submitting sentences for both offences.

The violent offender was eventually sentenced to 8 years in prison.

He made his first attack on the evening of December 21, 2021, beating a schoolboy he knew in front of the school with a friend in Jurbarke. The victim was beaten, knocked to the ground, kicked after the lessons ended.

On the evening of December 2, 2022, A. Januskevičius attacked another victim – his girlfriend’s father – with his fists. The latter was hit at least four times in the face and other parts of the body in the apartment on Žiborinė Street.

The friend’s father felt ill after the beating and developed life-threatening symptoms. Paramedics who were called to the house took him to hospital.

After long efforts by doctors to save the man, the fight against death was lost – his life ended in a medical facility a month and a half after the attack, on January 21, 2023.

According to prosecutors, the athlete was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the fatal attack.

The first case regarding the beating of a schoolboy was investigated in June 2023, after the Jurbarkas court issued a 20-day arrest.

In December of the same year, the Kaunas District Court announced the sentence to A. Januskevičius in the second murder case, and on Thursday, it was decided to combine these two sentences.

The court also ordered the participant in Lithuanian mixed martial arts competitions and other competitions to compensate his girlfriend, who lost her father, 10 thousand. EUR non-monetary damages.

This is not all the cases raised against A. Januskevic for aggressive attacks: on December 14, 2022, almost two weeks after the fatal blows to his girlfriend’s father, he committed violence against a close relative or member of the family. The violence was repeated on February 4, 2023. He was also sentenced to prison for this.