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    Feb 2022

    Last Updated: 10/02/2022
    Crime
    Crime

    Man denies murder at flat on Harrogate's Mayfield Grove

    by Nick Towle

    | 10 Feb, 2022
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    Vitalijus Koreiva, 36, pleaded not guilty this morning to murdering Gracijus Balciauskas at a flat on Mayfield Grove on December 20 last year. Another man charged with murder has yet to enter a plea.

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    The crime scene at the flat on Mayfield Grove in December 2021. Picture: the Stray Ferret.

    A man has denied murder following the death of a 41-year-old man in Harrogate.

    Vitalijus Koreiva, 36, is accused of murdering Gracijus Balciauskas on December 20 last year. Mr Balciauskas’s body was found at a flat in Mayfield Grove at about 11.30pm.  

    Koreiva, of Mayfield Grove, appeared at Leeds Crown Court via video link today when he pleaded not guilty to the allegation. 

    A second murder suspect, 38-year-old Jaroslaw Rutowicz, of no fixed address, has yet to enter a plea to the charge. 

    Judge Geoffrey Marson QC adjourned the case for a trial on June 20. It is expected to last 10 days. Koreiva and Rutowicz were remanded in custody.



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