Teens detained over park machete murder

Two boys believed to be the UK's youngest knife murderers were both detained for a minimum of eight years and six months for a fatal machete attack on a man in a park.
Shawn Seesahai, 19, was killed by the two boys, then aged 12, during a confrontation over a park bench in Wolverhampton in November 2023.
The boys, who both turned 13 before they were sentenced and cannot be named for legal reasons, are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in Britain since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger.
Mr Seesahai had travelled from his home country of Anguilla in the Caribbean to the UK for cataract surgery, and hoped to stay to continue his education.
The youths got into a confrontation with him and his friend over a bench, with one boy telling him to “keep stepping”, before a machete was produced and both men fled.
Mr Seesahai stumbled and fell to the ground where he was set upon by the boys, one using fists and feet, while the other stabbed him.
There were conflicting witness accounts during the trial at Nottingham Crown Court about which boy had inflicted the fatal blows using the machete, and both defendants blamed the other, but each was convicted of murder.
The judge, Mrs Justice Tipples, ordered the boys to be detained at His Majesty's pleasure - the juvenile equivalent of a life sentence - and told them they would each spend a minimum of eight-and-a-half years in custody.
She said: “When you killed Shawn he was 19, starting out on his adult life with everything to live for.”
“What you both did was horrific and shocking," she added.
The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: www.judiciary....
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