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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Davies

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Judge rules wolverhampton machete attack 12 year olds cannot be named | History Defined

The Stowlawn playing fields in Wolverhampton where Shawn Seesahai was murdered last year.
The Stowlawn playing fields in Wolverhampton where Shawn Seesahai was murdered last year. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

A judge has rejected a media application to name two 12-year-old boys found guilty of murdering a stranger in a machete attack.

The pair, both from Wolverhampton, were convicted in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture during an attack in the city’s Stowlawn playing fields on 13 November last year.

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