London.- Two 12-year-old boys were found guilty this Monday by a jury of stab another to death 19 in an unprovoked attack in a park in the town of Wolverhampton, central England.
The two preteens, who They cannot be identified for legal reasonsyes, they killed to Shawn Seesahai with a machete-type knife on November 13, 2023 and will be sentenced at an upcoming hearing in July.
They are believed to be the two youngest people to be convicted of murder in the UK since 1993. Ten-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venablesd, they were for killing 2-year-old James Bulger in a case that shocked this country.
They will also be the youngest to be convicted of murder with a knifeaccording to the British press.
During this Monday’s session in a court in Nottingham (central England), the families of both the victim and the murdered They cried and hugged each other after the jury unanimously convicted the two attackerswho were charged respectively with murder and murder plus possession of a sharp object.
At the beginning of the trial, prosecutor Michelle Heeley explained to the court that Seesahai, who lived in Birmingham (central) but was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbeanhad traveled to the United Kingdom to receive treatment for cataracts.
During the process, it was learned that the 19-year-old was attacked in the shoulder by the shorter of the two attackers – who, according to a witness“often” carried a 42.5 cm long machete-, before being hit, kicked and slashed with the weapon.
A friend of the victim managed to escape running, but the latter He stumbled and was unable to get away from the attackers.
After first refusing to testify, the two defendants finally did so and blamed each other for having inflicted the crime. fatal stab.
At the trial it was learned that, in the hours after the events, no one showed remorse: one cleaned the machete with bleach and he hid it under his bed and they both played video games, in addition to denying knowledge of his victim’s death.
The jury concluded that both had killed Seesahai in a violent arbitrary attack without any provocation, so they will have to face a long period in captivity.
