Two 12-year-olds killed man with machete blows to the skull and heart, jury told
The youths deny murdering Shawn Seesahai, who died at the scene after being attacked while ‘utterly defenceless’ in Wolverhampton.
Two 12-year-old boys used a machete to murder an “utterly defenceless” man, slashing his legs and inflicting an injury that went through his back and ribs into his heart, a court has heard.
Jurors were told that Shawn Seesahai, 19, had offered no violence and done nothing to offend either of the boys, but was hit so hard on the skull that a piece of bone came away.
Both youths, who cannot be named because of their age, deny murdering Mr Seesahai, who was pronounced dead at the scene on Stowlawn playing fields in Wolverhampton on the night of November 13 last year.
Opening the Crown’s case at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, prosecution KC Michelle Heeley said: “Shawn Seesahai was murdered by being struck with a machete to his back, legs and skull.
“He was also beaten and kicked. The Crown say that these two defendants were jointly responsible for that attack.”
Ms Heeley told the court Mr Seesahai, who lived in Handsworth in Birmingham but was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean, had travelled to the UK to receive treatment for cataracts.
On November 13, he had travelled with friends to Wolverhampton, while the two 12-year-olds were together from 4.10pm that afternoon, meeting two girls of around the same age who are witnesses in the case.
The jury heard that one of the girls told police that one of the defendants regularly carried a machete, that he had a machete that day, and that he and other boy “were passing it between themselves”.
Ms Heeley told the jury: “Those boys had gone out armed with a lethal weapon, we have it here in court so you can see the size of it.”
