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Sitting cross-legged on the pavement with his head in his hands, Ernestas Juska appeared chillingly calm as he told police, ‘I’ve just killed someone.’
Just moments earlier, the 21-year-old had savagely murdered an innocent sleeping woman at his mother’s home before strolling to a bus stop and quietly asking a member of the public to call police.
Now after Juska was jailed for life today it can be revealed how the loner murdered Nina Denisova, 39, after becoming consumed by fantasies of having sex with dead bodies due to a fixation with extreme pornography.
The jobless Lithuanian was high on drink and cocaine when he decided he ‘wanted to kill someone’ after spending the evening socialising with his mother and family friends including Ms Denisova at his mother’s home in Dartford, Kent.
The loner roamed the house looking for a weapon around 6am, taking the biggest kitchen knife he could find before pouncing on the unsuspecting victim stabbing her in the neck as she slept in a spare bedroom.
In an act of ‘unspeakable depravity’, as Ms Denisova struggled, Juska put his hands over her mouth, he then stabbed her through both eyes, in the stomach and chest.
As she lay dying, Juska clambered onto the bed to have sex with her corpse, later telling police he wanted to ‘see what it felt like to f*** her’, admitting he ‘wasn’t proud of it’.
Following the murder on August 17, 2024, Juska left the property and walked to a nearby bus stop, where he calmly asked a member of the public to call police, admitting he had just killed someone.
Ernestas Juska in custody after the murder
In police bodycam footage, Juska is seen sitting cross-legged on the pavement as an officer approaches him, asking: ‘What’s going on, lad?’.
‘I killed someone. A friend of my mum’s’ he casually replied.
Following his arrest, Juska, who had been rebuffed by the victim years earlier at the age of 16, told police he ‘didn’t feel anything’.
He told police he had decided to ‘lash out’ and kill someone, but claimed he did not know why, saying he felt ‘excitement’ in the moments leading up to the murder.
Police bodycam footage showed the killer displaying no emotion, simply nodding as he was told in custody that the victim had died.
Jailing him for 24 years and seven months today, Mr Justice Dexter Dias, KC, said: ‘I have no doubt that the last moments of Nina Denisova’s life were lived in extreme, unexpected and undeserved horror.
‘The suffering she experienced as she died for no reason except that you, Ernestas Juska, developed a preoccupation with killing a human being, including an entirely innocent one, is unimaginable.
The moment Juska was arrested
‘But you were not finished, and you insisted on making your lurid fantasising about having sexual intercourse come true, even when your brutal violence had turned the living breathing human being you attacked in the most cowardly way as she slept into a corpse.’
Maidstone Crown Court heard that medical experts found Juska’s consumption of violent pornography had an ‘extreme impact’ on him.
Describing him as a ‘deeply disturbed individual’ responsible for an ‘extreme explosion of sexual and sadistic conduct’, the judge said it cannot be a coincidence that the defendant wanted to have sex with a corpse after consuming pornography focusing on dead bodies, rape and bestiality.
‘He decided he wanted to kill someone, he thought through his options, he did not want to kill his mother or sister and he knew Ms Denisova was in the house and asleep,’ the judge said.
‘He had a chance to stop; instead, he intensified his attack, he chose a particularly cruel and sadistic method of doing so.’
The judge told the defendant: ‘This was a murder involving acts of almost unimaginable depravity.
‘I have no doubt that the risk you, Ernestas Juska, currently present to the public is grave.’
Ms Denisova’s brother described the victim as a very calm and positive person who had arrived in the UK from Lithuania in 2006.
‘We can never forgive him for what he’s done and we will never be able to understand why he did what he did that sad day,’ he said.
Beth O’Reilly KC, defending, said Juska’s ‘shame is palpable’.
In the dock, Juska’s eyes were downcast throughout the entire hearing.
He admitted murder and committing a sexual offence against a deceased female at an earlier hearing.
Detective Sergeant Max Gregory said: ‘Juska was responsible for an act of shocking and senseless brutality, seemingly without reason or any hint of remorse.
‘He targeted a helpless victim as she slept and inflicted multiple injuries during a sustained and savage attack. The fact that he went on to commit further appalling acts after her death shows a level of depravity which defies belief.
‘Juska’s actions have devastated a family and taken away a much-loved daughter and sister. We are only relieved that he has now been jailed for life and can no longer pose a threat to anyone.’