Vitalija Baliutaviciene vanished while on her way to work on Friday 12 August 2011. A caring and hard-working mother, 28-year-old Vitalija moved to Peterborough from Lithuania in May 2010. She had endured years of abuse at the hands of her ex-husband, Rimas Venclovas, who was handed a life sentence for her murder in November 2012. The unprecedented case relied on the damning secrets contained in Venclovas’s sat nav. Venclovas is seeking leave to appeal his conviction on the basis prosecutors could not be certain which country she died in. It has always been the prosecution case that Vitalija was killed within 50 minutes of the abduction taking place.
On 30 April 2013 Crimewatch featured the story about the investigation into the abduction and murder of Vitalija Baliutaviciene. FVS provided photogrammetry services and evidence at the Old Bailey during the trial:
