Minimum term increased for then 12-year-olds over Wolverhampton murder

Boys, believed to be UK’s youngest knife murderers, who killed Shawn Seesahai with a machete have minimum term raised to at least 10 years

Two boys, believed to be Britain’s youngest knife murderers after killing a 19-year-old man with a machete when they were 12, have had their sentences increased to a 10-year-minimum prison term at the court of appeal.

The boys, now aged 13, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton in 2023.