Two 13-year-old teenagers were sentenced this Friday to eight years and six months in prison by an English court for stabbing murder of another 19-year-old boy in a park in the town of Wolverhampton, in the center of England.
A court in the English city of Nottingham sentenced the minors, whose names cannot be provided for legal reasons, to the prison sentencewhich both must comply with before being eligible for parole.
However, this conditional release will be granted under certain conditions, which will remain imposed for life, Nottingham judge Amanda Tipples explained this Friday, without providing further details. The boys, who were found guilty last June, they were 12 years old when Shawn Seesahai was killed with a machete-style knife on November 13, 2023, in an unprovoked attack.
According to local media, these two minors are the youngest to be convicted for murder in United Kingdom since the case of the murderers of the boy James Bulger, 2 years old, in 1993 in Merseyside, in the northwest of England.
In February 1993, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, then 10 years old, James Bulger was kidnapped from a shopping center and later killed near a railway track, in a case that once caused a great commotion in the United Kingdom. “The facts of this case are horrible and scandalous“said the judge this Friday about the Seesahai case.
According to the trial that took place in the first half of the year, Seesahai – who lived in Birmingham, the center of Englandbut was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean – was beaten, kicked and slashed with the weapon. At the trial it was also learned that Neither of the two attackers showed remorse. for the murder since one cleaned the machete with bleach and hid it under his bed and they both played video games.
