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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Callum Parke

Bid to increase UK’s youngest machete killers’ sentences to be heard on Thursday

Shawn Seesahai (Family Handout/PA) - (PA Media)

A hearing to decide whether Britain’s youngest knife murderers should have their sentences increased for the killing of Shawn Seesahai will be held on Thursday at the Court of Appeal.

The boys, now 13, were both 12 when they attacked Mr Seesahai with a machete on playing fields in Wolverhampton on November 13 last year, and were ordered to serve life sentences with minimum terms of eight-and-a-half years in September after being found guilty of murder.

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