‘He has got what he deserves’ - mum

Latvian Ksenija Vorosilina was stabbed to death by Kaspars Stamers, jailed for life last week when he pleaded guilty to murdering the 28-year-old on May 28, 2012.

Stamers appeared in the dock of Craigavon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, on Friday. Mr Justice Weir told Stamers that given his guilty plea there is “only one sentence which is permitted by law and that’s the sentence of life imprisonment”.

He told Stamers he would fix the minimum tariff he must serve before becoming eligible to have his case referred to the parole commissioners in May.

Ksenija’s mother Marianna said that Stamers robbed her of her only child and life without her has been unbearable.

“I only met Stamers once and never liked him from the word go,” she said. “He robbed me of my only daughter. I try to block him out of my mind and that awful day. He has got what he deserves.”

Interpreter and close friend Sandis Balins said that Marianna found her daughter’s death too hard to bear.

“There was only Ksenija her mother and 82 year old grandmother in the family who still live in Latvia,” he said. “Marianna has still not told her mother a year on that Ksenija is dead - because the news would kill her.

“Life has been very hard for her since last year. Ksenija would have sent over money to the family. Marianna is finding life hard. She has not been able to work for the past few months because she has broken her arm in two places.

“On top of that she is also still trying to come to terms with her daughter’s death. It is very hard.”

He said that only two people will only ever know what happened that fateful day in May last year.

Ksenija and Kaspar were planning to split and he planned to leave the home for England two days previous.

She had returned home after working at a shirt factory to find Kaspar drinking heavily.

A fateful stab wound perforated her lung. Police officers who were first at the scene tried to revive her as they waited for the ambulance to arrive.

Sandis a close friend to Ksenija and chairperson for a multi cultural group paid tribute to her.

“Ksenija had been working and sending money home to her family,” he said. “That’s the sort of girl she was.

She was a kind decent girl. She had lots of really good friends here who loved her.

“Ksenija had moved to Northern Ireland for a better life and a new beginning. You would not have met a more decent and caring person.

“Everyone loved her and she was so nice, extremely generous and very popular. She was so caring. She had helped other Latvians who came over here - at least four families - offering clothes and support to them.

That was the sort of person she was.

“She was a good friend and I feel a part of me is missing now. If I got my hands on him (Kaspers) I would punch him - I would get arrested. - she did not deserve that.

“I regret the day that she ever met him. He seemed like a good person at first but was a heavy drinker,”

He said that Ksenijas mother was eternally grateful to the Lisburn community for their help and support in bringing her daughter back home to her.