Court of Appeal to review youngest machete killers’ eight-year minimum terms

Floral tributes left at the scene in at Stowlawn playing fields in Wolverhampton where Shawn Seesahai died on Monday November 13. Two 12-year-old boys charged with murder and possessing a machete have appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court and been remanded into youth detention until next year. Picture date: Monday November 20, 2023. - (PA Archive)

The minimum terms handed to Britain’s youngster knife murderers for killing Shawn Seesahai are set to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal after claims the sentences were unduly lenient.

The boys, now aged 13, were both 12 when they attacked Mr Seesahai with a machete on playing fields in Wolverhampton on November 13 last year.