The boy, one of two 12-year-olds found guilty this week of murdering Shawn Seesahai, 19, with a 16-inch machete (Pictures: West Midlands Police/PA)
One of Britain’s youngest knife killers terrorised his neighbours so badly that one put up barbed wire to keep the ‘scum’ out.
The boy, one of two 12-year-olds found guilty this week of murdering Shawn Seesahai, 19, with a 16-inch machete, was described as ‘a thoroughly nasty piece of work’.
Residents near the Wolverhampton park where the brutal attack took place told how the tearaway and his pals plagued the area, stealing scooters and posting fireworks through letterboxes.
One said: ‘You could see he was carrying a knife. He was out every night of the week. Gang members would be in the alley waiting for him.’
Speaking to the Telegraph, the man went on: ‘I don’t want him breaking into my house when I’m out. I barbed-wired it all. I screened the window.
‘His friend was always with him. They were always together, pinching, night after night. Scum, that’s all he was.’
Mr Seesahai, a stranger to the two boys, lived in Handsworth in Birmingham but was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean and had travelled to the UK to receive treatment for cataracts.
Shawn Seesahai was stabbed through the heart in a Wolverhampton park (Picture: Family Handout/PA Wire)
Still image from a video recovered off one of the defendant’s mobile showing different knives on a bed (Picture: West Midlands Police/SWNS)
Officers searched a storage space under one of the youngsters’ bed and recovered a machete (Picture: West Midlands Police/SWNS)
Jurors at the boys’ month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard he was shoulder-barged by the smaller of the two, who ‘often’ carried a machete with a 42.5cm-long blade, before being punched, kicked, stamped on and ‘chopped’ at with the weapon.
The pair are believed to be the youngest convicted of murder in Britain since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both then aged 11, for killing two-year-old James Bulger.
They are also thought to be the UK’s youngest knife murderers ever.
Former top police officers have joined calls for the killers to be unmasked when they are sentenced next month.
Ex-Met officer Peter Bleksley said: ‘We don’t have enough deterrents these days, which is why criminals roam the streets without fear. Naming and shaming sometimes works.’
Photo issued by West Midlands Police of one of two 12-year-old boys who are thought to have become the youngest knife murderers in the UK (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)
Former Met Commander Dai Davies said unmasking them ‘could act as a deterrent for other youngsters’, adding: ‘Secondly it would expose the feral kids that they are.’
Yesterday, police released a chilling photo showing one of the boys posing for a picture with his machete tucked into his tracksuit bottoms just hours before the murder.
In the hours after the murder, on Wolverhampton’s Stowlawn playing fields, the same youth – who admitted unlawful possession of the machete but denied any other wrongdoing – was given a lift home by a family member, bleached his machete and hid it under his bed.
In social media exchanges involving his co-defendant and a girl witness who later attended a police station with her mother to make a statement, the boy said of the stabbing: ‘It is what it is.’
Mr Seesahai was described by his parents as a hard worker, who ‘loved’ to help his mother with chores, worked for his father at the weekend and always told them that one day he would ‘shine’ and take care of them.
Mr Seesahai’s parents Suresh Seesahai (father) and Manehwary (mother)(Picture: West Midlands Police)
His dad added: ‘I will remember him every day, when I get home I see his pictures, his clothes, his sneakers, I will always remember him.’
He said he feels sorry for the parents of the children who are accused of the killing and only hopes that ‘justice’ is served for the death of his teenage son.
Ms Seesahai said: ‘He didn’t deserve what happened, I don’t have much to say about it. I just want justice.’
Mr Seesahai added: ‘Justice must be done. I want them to have the right sentence, they don’t have to be locked up for life, I just want it to be fair.
‘We are keeping our fingers crossed that we’ll get the justice we’ve come here for.’
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