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James Citro

 


Name:

James Citro

AKA:

James Kennedy

D.O.B.

1957
Kill Total: 1

Kill date:

20 October 1998

Kill Place:

Wembley, london

Status:

Single

Occupation:

 

Victim:

Nijole Siskeviciene
D.O.B. 1954

 


 

Court:

Old Bailey

Judge:

David Paget

Prosecution:

Philip Bennetts QC

Defence:

 

 


 

 

 

FACTFILE

 

1978 James Kennedy, originally from Co Tipperary, Ireland, was jailed for 10 years for two rapes in the same area of Ireland. The victims were held or throttled around the neck.

 

20th October 1998, Citro raped and then strangled his next door neighbour,  Nijole Siskeviciene, he then dumped her body propped up in a sitting position outside garages at the back of her home in Lancelot Road, Wembley, north London.

 

He changed his name by deed-poll from James Kennedy to James Citro and moved to Weston-super-Mare.

 

July 2010, Citro was stopped for drink driving, a routine DNA test linked him to the 1998 killing of chamber-maid Ms Siskeviciene.

 

Thursday 27th January 2011, James Citro appeared at the Old Bailey in London charged with the murder of 44 year old Chamber-maid Nijole Siskeviciene. Citro denied murder.

 

Tuesday 11th October 2011, Trial starts at the old Bailey in London.

Citro denies all charges.

 

25th October 2011, Citro claimed in courrt that he had paid Ms Siskeviciene for sex on the day she died, he was then watch TV in his flat. He also admitted lying to police during the initial investigation, saying he was trying to save his marriage.

 

Monday 31st October 2011, James Citro is found guilty of murder at the ild Bailey in London.

His sentencing was deferred to allow reports.

 

Friday 9th December 2011, Sentencing him at the Old Bailey to a minimum of 20 years, Judge David Paget called Citro a "dangerous man".

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