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sl8

(16,273 posts)
Mon Jun 10, 2024, 03:32 PM Jun 2024

Boys, 12, found guilty of machete murder

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz99py9rgz5o
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Boys, 12, found guilty of machete murder

4 hours ago
By Caroline Gall, BBC News, West Midlands

Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of murdering a man who was stabbed through the heart with a machete.

Shawn Seesahai, 19, died in November last year after being set upon in an unprovoked attack on Stowlawn playing fields in East Park, Wolverhampton.

The pair, who cannot be named, are believed to be the youngest convicted of the crime since James Bulger's killers were detained in 1993.

During a trial at Nottingham Crown Court, the boys sought to blame each other, but the jury convicted them both of Mr Seesahai's murder on Monday.

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Boys, 12, found guilty of machete murder (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Your link is not working. Here's one that I found. iscooterliberally Jun 2024 #1
Thanks! sl8 Jun 2024 #2
So sick and tragic. pandr32 Jun 2024 #3
so this begs the question for me... FirstLight Jun 2024 #4
No. It's been going on forever. jimfields33 Jun 2024 #5

FirstLight

(14,309 posts)
4. so this begs the question for me...
Mon Jun 10, 2024, 04:01 PM
Jun 2024

is violent crime becoming more prevalent in younger kids?

I dont want to sound like a pearl-clutcher, but am I imagining this?

jimfields33

(19,317 posts)
5. No. It's been going on forever.
Mon Jun 10, 2024, 09:05 PM
Jun 2024

Lizzie Borden gave her mother 40 wacks and gave her father 40 more.

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