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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

Britain’s youngest knife killers stabbed stranger to death in ‘horrific’ machete murder

West Midlands Police

Two boys thought to be Britain’s youngest knife killers who stabbed a stranger to death in a “horrific and shocking” machete murder have each been handed life sentences.

The killers, both aged 12 at the time of the incident but now 13, were found guilty in June of stabbing 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai in the heart in a random and “senseless” attack on Wolverhampton’s Stowlawn playing fields on 13 November last year.

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