Two 12-year-old boys are discovered responsible of stabbing stranger to dying

Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of stabbing a stranger to death with a machete in a park in Wolverhampton. 

Jurors unanimously convicted the pair, who are believed to be the youngest boys to have committed a knife-related murder in the UK, today.

The youths are also believed to be the youngest children to have been found guilty of murder since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger.

A month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Court was told Shawn Seesahai was shoulder-barged by the smaller of the two defendants, who ‘often’ carried a machete with a 42.5cm-long blade, before being punched, kicked, stamped on and ‘chopped’ at with the weapon.

The victim’s friend told the trial he was forced to run for his life, but 19-year-old Mr Seesahai stumbled as he tried to flee from the boys on Wolverhampton’s Stowlawn playing fields on November 13 last year.

Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of stabbing Shawn Seesahai (pictured) to death with a machete in a park in Wolverhampton

Mr Seesahai had flown to Britain from the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla for medical treatment on his eyes, when he was set upon by the boys

Mr Seesahai was pronounced dead at 9.11pm on November 13 last year after police were called to the scene at 8.37pm

Mr Seesahai had flown to Britain from the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla for medical treatment on his eyes, when he was set upon by the boys.

The court heard that they attacked the victim with such force that in one blow the machete almost passed through his body 

Mr Seesahai was pronounced dead at 9.11pm on November 13 last year after police were called to the scene at 8.37pm.