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

Murder of Shawn Seesahai by 12-year-olds in park shocked police

A police cordon next to Stowlawn playing fields after Shawn Seesahai’s murder.
A friend who was with Seesahai said they had been sat on a bench discussing their plans for Christmas before the boys attacked. Photograph: Stephanie Wareham/PA Media

Surrounded by quiet residential streets and the grounds of a primary school, Stowlawn playing fields in Wolverhampton are normally a place where teenagers kick a football around and children pass through as they walk home from school.

When Shawn Seesahai came across two 12-year-old boys hanging out in the park with a friend, he would not have expected one of them to be carrying a deadly weapon, or that minutes later they would use that weapon to kill him in a brutal, random attack.

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