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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Minimum term increased for 13-year-olds over Wolverhampton murder

Closeup of Shawn Seesahai
Shawn Seesahai was stabbed to death in East Park in Wolverhampton in 2023. Photograph: Family/PA

Britain’s youngest knife murderers, who killed a 19-year-old man with a machete when they were 12, have had their sentences increased to a 10-year-minimum prison term at the court of appeal.

The two boys, now 13, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton in November 2023.

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