Two boys, aged 12, stabbed 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai to death in a machete attack in Wolverhampton park, England, after the victim “brushed them with his shoulder”. Shawn was stomped, punched and stabbed in an unprovoked attack.
Two 12-year-olds were found guilty this week by a jury of stabbing another 19-year-old to death in an unprovoked attack in a park in the town of Wolverhampton, in central England. This case has become the most shocking of the last three decades in the United Kingdom.
The two preteens, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, killed Shawn Seesahai with a machete-type knife on November 13, 2023 and will be sentenced at an upcoming hearing in July.
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They are believed to be the two youngest people to be convicted of murder in the UK since 10-year-old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were convicted of murdering two-year-old James Bulger in 1993 in a case that shocked this country.
They will also be the youngest to be convicted of murder with a knife, according to the British press.
During last Monday’s session in a court in Nottingham (central England), the families of both the victim and the murdered man cried and hugged each other after the jury unanimously convicted the two attackers, who were accused respectively of murder and further murder. possession of sharp object.
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“This world is a different world. Children are dangerous now… were the words of Shawn Seesahai’s father after his 12-year-old killers were convicted.
At the start of the trial, prosecutor Michelle Heeley told the court that Seesahai, who lived in Birmingham but was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean, had traveled to the UK to receive treatment for cataracts.
During the process, it was learned that the 19-year-old was attacked on 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 stumbled and could not get away from the attackers. After first refusing to testify, the two defendants eventually did so and blamed each other for inflicting the fatal stab wound.
At the trial it was learned that, in the hours after the events, neither showed remorse: one cleaned the machete with bleach and hid it under his bed and both played video games, in addition to denying knowledge of their victim’s death.
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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 of detention.
The rise in knife violence in the UK, especially among minors, has raised concerns. According to the British Office for National Statistics (ONS), knife crime increased by 7% in 2023 compared to the previous year, reaching almost 50,000 cases and doubling in the last decade.
This increase in youth violence has led to debates about the need to strengthen justice and prevention policies.
With information from EFE.
