Young killers won’t be named

Judge turns down media request to identify 12-year-old murderers

The youngest defendants to be convicted of murder in more than 30 years will not be named when they are sentenced to indefinite detention later this month. In a judgment published yesterday, a High Court judge dismissed an application by media organisations for reporting restrictions to be lifted.

Shawn Seesahai

Shawn Seesahai, 19, died last November last year after being set upon by two 12-year-old boys at a park Wolverhampton. He was stabbed through the heart with a 16-inch machete in an unprovoked attack. Seesahai, from Anguilla, had come to Britain for eye surgery.