British boys sentenced for murder of Anguilla man

Two boys in Britain, who fatally stabbed Shawn Seesahai with a machete, when they were 12 years old, were sentenced on Friday to a minimum of eight and a half years in prison. This makes them the youngest individuals convicted of murder in the UK in over two decades.

Now 13, the boys—whose identities are protected due to their age—were found guilty in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai. Originally from the Caribbean island of Anguilla, Seesahai was attacked in November 2023 following a confrontation with the boys on a playing field in Wolver Hampton.

Judge Amanda Tipples sentenced them to life in prison with a minimum term of eight and a half years. Throughout the trial, each boy claimed the other was responsible for the attack, which arose from a dispute over sitting on a park bench. The judge remarked that she could not definitively ascertain which of the boys had inflicted the fatal wound.