SHAWN SEESAHAI was, by all accounts, a loving and hard-working young man. He had told his mum: “I want to shine in my life.” But Shawn didn’t get the chance to do that.
At the age of 19, he was hacked to death as he sat on a park bench in Wolverhampton. His two killers were both 12 years old. There was seemingly no motive.
It was an attack of depravity. A deranged and savage act. We are not being told the names of the boys who carried it out, for their protection.
Sometimes we are a little too understanding when it comes to criminals, no matter how old they are. Of course, it is the young age of Shawn’s attackers which really shocks. Any murder of the kind which these two demented feral brats carried out makes us stop and think.
But when you factor in that they had only just left junior school, it seems scarcely believable. Let’s be clear. When we are looking for causes for why this horrendous crime might have happened, we should remember one thing.
It was first and foremost a crime of individual wickedness, by each of the two killers. Yes, they were children. But I guess you all knew, when you were aged 12, that killing someone was a grave, mortal sin, didn’t you? So did they, no matter how thick they are.
I do wonder where their parents were in all this. I am beginning to think parents should be held legally responsible when their offspring do something monumentally evil. A bit like dog owners when their pets savage someone.
Because you don’t get to be 12 year.
