Judge sentences Britain’s youngest knife murderers to life

Britain’s youngest knife murderers, who killed a stranger in a brutal machete attack when they were aged just 12, have both been handed life sentences with a minimum term of eight-and-a-half years.
The killers, both from Wolverhampton, were convicted in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture on the city’s Stowlawn playing fields on November 13 last year.
They were described at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday as “the youngest knife murderers” and are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger.
Mr Seesahai’s killers, both now 13, cannot be named because of a court anonymity order.
Both youths were allowed to leave the dock and sit in the back row of the court benches on Friday as High Court judge Mrs Justice Tipples began her sentencing by acknowledging the sentence being passed would be no comfort to the victim’s family.
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