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.
2024-09-30 12:33:38 - VI News Staff
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.