A Lithuanian who illegally made his may into the UK twice who had charged with bludgeoning a retired couple to death in their home was a severely violent criminal who had already been kicked out of the UK.

Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, was in custody at a top security prison, Woodhill, Milton Keynes while awaiting trial for murdering Avtar Kolar, 62, and his wife Carole, 58, with a lump hammer, but was found hanging in his prison cell on Saturday.

Further investigations have since found that Liorancas was a violent armed robber and had travelled throughout Europe for over a decade committing crime after crime, despite being on the run from a former prison sentence he still managed to enter the UK illegally, even after a warrant across Europe had been issued for his arrest, the Lithuanian lived in Britain for nearly a year before he was discovered and deported, yet still he managed to find his way back into Britain having a long string of criminal convictions and no passport, yet British authorities had no idea Liorancas was even in the country until they arrested him two weeks ago.

Mr and Mrs Kolar had employed the builder to carry out some work at their home in Handsworth Wood in Birmingham. Their son, Jason, 37 had found the couple on January 11th and Liorancas was arrested five days later and charged with their murder.

However he was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday before he could be given the chance to explain what had exactly happened.

Described as ‘a madman’ by fellow tenants in the Birmingham bedsit where he had been living, they also added that Liorancas kept a collection of hammers in his room and they believed he was either a burglar or maybe even something worse.

Little did they know that their worries were indeed true and he had a criminal record going back more than a decade.

His ex-wife, Ingrida, said the violent robber had never had a job and had been involved in crime ever since he had left school.

Ingrida divorced Liorancas in 1999, during his first stint in prison for burglary but within four years, he was back and was convicted for an armed robbery in the Czech Republic.

He returned to Lithuania in 2005 to serve the rest of his sentence but was soon back in the UK, having gained entry to the country without a passport. Just because Lithuania is in the EU, it would appear that he, like so many others, thought that he had a free ticket to the UK.