British boys sentenced for murder of Anguilla man

Two boys in Britain, who fatally stabbed Shawn Seesahai with a machete, when they were 12 years old, were sentenced on Friday to a minimum of eight and a half years in prison. This makes them the youngest individuals convicted of murder in the UK in over two decades.

Now 13, the boys—whose identities are protected due to their age—were found guilty in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai. Originally from the Caribbean island of Anguilla, Seesahai was attacked in November 2023 following a confrontation with the boys on a playing field in Wolver Hampton.

Judge Amanda Tipples sentenced them to life in prison with a minimum term of eight and a half years. Throughout the trial, each boy claimed the other was responsible for the attack, which arose from a dispute over sitting on a park bench. The judge remarked that she could not definitively ascertain which of the boys had inflicted the fatal wound.

“What you did is horrific and shocking,” the judge said at Nottingham Crown Court. “You did not know Shawn, he was a stranger to you. You both killed Shawn in an attack that lasted less than a minute when he asked you to move.”

Chief Superintendent Kim Madill of West Midlands Police described the case as “shocking and saddening,” highlighting the human cost of knife crime. “The impact of knife crime is devastating, regardless of where you live in the country,” she stated. “This is an issue that affects us all. While we have made progress and had successes in some areas, it is clear that much more needs to be done.”

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The two boys are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who were both 11 when they were found guilty in 1993 of killing 2-year-old James Bulger. According to reports at the time Thompson and Venables had abducted Bulger from a shopping center and brutally beat him to death near an isolated railway line in northern England.

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