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05/06/2013

Man Killed By His Friends On Stag Night

A groom-to-be was killed after he was brutally beaten and then set on fire by his friends on his stag night.

According to the Daily Mail, 35-year-old Ramsey Raulinautis died three days after the attack, which left him with more than 60% of his body covered in severe burns.

His fiancée, 41-year-old Mandy Hammond explained how her fiancé had gone out to "celebrate his last night of freedom" when his party turned violent. Ms Hammond has spent the evening at home, having her nails painted and her hair prepared for their ceremony the following morning. However, in the early hours, the police contacted her to say her partner was in a critical condition and four of his friends had been arrested.

Ms Hammond said: "When I heard their names my jaw dropped in disbelief - they were the friends he'd gone out with for his stag night.

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"Ramsey had invited them around for dinner in the past - I had welcomed them into our home and cooked a meal for them.

"I still don't know what happened that night and why they killed my husband-to-be."

On the night in question, Hammond became concerned when her fiancé didn't answer his phone while on his stag night. When she heard the knock on the door, she ran to answer it believing it was her husband-to-be, but it was two police officers who then revealed Raulinautis had been attacked outside a hotel and his body set on fire.

The four men who were with Raulinautis on the night of his death stood trial at Cardiff Crown Court last year. Polish-born Pawel Lysonik, 22, and Kamil Semrau, 28, were found guilty by the jury of murder and jailed for life, while two other men, 30-year-old Lukas Kalkowski and 31-year-old Stanislaw Gliszczynski were found guilty of GBH with intent and sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Cardiff Crown Court heard the four men refused to give any explanation why they carried out the attack.

Construction worker Raulinautis moved to Newport, South Wales, where he met mother-of-seven Ms Hammond five years ago. He later proposed on a trip to meet his family in his hometown in Lithuania. The couple returned to the UK and set their wedding day for 10 March, 2011.

(JP/CD)

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"A groom-to-be was killed after he was brutally beaten and then set on fire by his friends on his stag night."