Overview

• On July 18, 2025, Ernestas Juska, 21, admitted in court to murdering 39-year-old Nina Denisova and committing a sexual offence against her corpse.
• Prosecutors outlined how Juska stabbed Denisova repeatedly with a kitchen knife while she slept in her Dartford flat on August 17, 2024.
• Juska self-reported the crime at a Wordsworth Way bus stop, telling a passerby “I killed someone” before directing Kent Police back to Henderson Drive.
• Court documents reveal he consumed alcohol and cocaine the night before and chose a non-relative victim to “lash out” in a planned attack.
• Denisova had been a family friend of Juska’s mother who was staying overnight at his flat when she was killed.