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| Minimum term increased for 13-year-olds over Wolverhampton murder | |
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| Boys who killed Shawn Seesahai when they were 12, UK’s youngest knife murderers, sentenced to at least 10 years | |
| Two boys, believed to be Britain’s youngest knife murderers after killing 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. | Two boys, believed to be Britain’s youngest knife murderers after killing 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 boys, now aged 13, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton in 2023. | The boys, now aged 13, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton in 2023. |
| Seesahai was stabbed through the heart and lungs and sustained a skull fracture when he was attacked during a minor dispute over a bench on playing fields in East Park. One of the wounds almost passed right through his body. | Seesahai was stabbed through the heart and lungs and sustained a skull fracture when he was attacked during a minor dispute over a bench on playing fields in East Park. One of the wounds almost passed right through his body. |
| Both boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to murder and blamed the other for inflicting the fatal machete wounds. | Both boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to murder and blamed the other for inflicting the fatal machete wounds. |
| They are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger when they were 10 years old. | They are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger when they were 10 years old. |
| The attorney general’s office confirmed in November that it had referred the sentences to the court of appeal, claiming they were “unduly lenient”. | The attorney general’s office confirmed in November that it had referred the sentences to the court of appeal, claiming they were “unduly lenient”. |
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