Judge rules sentences for Britain's youngest knife killers, 12, who hacked Shawn Seesahai to death with a machete in unprovoked attack were unduly lenient

The sentences of two 12-year-old boys who hacked an innocent teenager to death with a machete in a completely random and unprovoked attack were not unduly lenient, a judge has ruled. The two boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight-and-a-half years for the murder of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton last year. Shawn Seesahai, 19, was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture last November CCTV footage revealed the last moments of Shawn Seesahai as he headed to the park Both boys pleaded not guilty to murder, blaming the other for inflicting four wounds with a 16-inch machete on November 13 last year. Shawn Seesahai stumbled as he tried to flee from the boys in Wolverhampton, the court heard Officers searched a storage space under one of the boy's beds and recovered a machete An image retrieved from the phone of one of the boys showed long knives and swords on a bed The anti-knife campaigner's brother was only 21 when he was stabbed to death in a case of mistaken identity in Liverpool in 2001. The boys are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in Britain since Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger Venables and Thompson tortured and killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993 Forensics and police officers stand at the murder scene in Wolverhampton last November Your browser does not support iframes.