Judge rules Wolverhampton machete attack 12-year-olds cannot be named

Media’s public interest argument rejected on basis naming the boys would severely harm their welfare

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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