Neighbour of boy, 12, who murdered Shawn Seesahai, 19, with a 16-inch machete reveals he had to put up barbed wire to keep him off his property and calls him ‘twisted in the head’

The neighbor of a 12-year-old boy who killed teenager Shawn Seesahai with a 16-inch machete set up barbed wire to keep him off his property, it emerged last night.

Locals living near Wolverhampton Park, where the 19-year-old was stabbed to death in a brutal killing, said one of the tears was a ‘nasty piece of work’.

A neighbor erected a fence with nail wire, metal bars and a sign warning of 24-hour CCTV in an attempt to barricade his home and keep the ‘scum’ out.

The killer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, rode his mountain bike around the playing fields and lingered outside shops and alleys late into the night, cutting the wires of lampposts.

Residents called him a “nasty piece of work” and accused him of putting fireworks through mailboxes, damaging street lights and stealing scooters in a reign of terror that ravaged the neighborhood.

The boy and another 12-year-old child were both found guilty of murder Nottingham Crown Court and are believed to be Britain’s youngest knife murderers.

Yesterday, police published a terrifying photo of one of the 12-year-old killers posing with a 16-inch machete tucked into his pants

Shawn Seesahai, 19, was brutally hacked to death by two 12-year-old boys in a Wolverhampton park in November 2023

Forensic detectives and police officers stand behind a cordon at a blue tent near the murder scene

Speak with The Telegraph, one man said, “You could see he had a knife. I told the police he had with him and I told social services he had a knife.

‘He was out every night of the week. He was in gangs. Gang members would be waiting for him in that alley.

‘I don’t want him breaking into my house while I’m away. I connected it all with barbed wire. I shielded the window.

‘His friend was always with him. They were always together, squeezing, night after night. Scum, that’s all he was.’

He told The times he “was pinching every night of the week.”

He said: ‘I was tired of it. The police brought him back every night of the week. They woke me up and banged on my door.

‘The police have carried out two raids, the neighbors told me. They arrested him and social services were always there. The police broke my gate when they came to get him.’

It comes as former police officers step up pressure to appoint two boys to stop other youngsters picking up knives, The Sun reported.

Former Met officer Peter Bleksley said: ‘We don’t have enough deterrents these days and that’s why criminals roam the streets without fear. Naming and shaming sometimes works.’

While former Met commander Dai Davies said exposing it could ‘deter other young people’.

An image retrieved from a phone of one of the boys with long knives and swords on a bed

A machete depicted under the bed of one of the attackers. Relatives of both the victim and the defendants cried and hugged each other in the public gallery as jurors found both boys guilty of murder and one guilty of possessing a bladed article.

CCTV footage revealed Shawn Seesahai’s last moments as he headed to the park

Mr Seesahai is seen leaving Handsworth, an inner-city area of ​​Birmingham, with two friends at around 5.30pm and boarding a tram at Winson Green station.

At 6:34 p.m., Mr. Seesahai and a friend leave the park to go to a local gas station

The Snapchat messages the two killers sent to each other after killing Suresh Seesahai

“Second, it would expose the wild children that they are,” he said.

Yesterday, police published a terrifying photo of one of the 12-year-old killers posing with a 16-inch machete tucked into his pants on the day he hacked Mr Seesahai to death.

The masked boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is seen wearing a gray hooded sweater and with the black handle of the knife within easy reach of his chin.

The killer peers down menacingly and stuffs both hands into the waistband of his gray sweatpants in a terrifying snap.

Mr Seesahai, who came to Britain for eye surgery after suffering a basketball injury, was brutally attacked by the boy and another 12-year-old in a Wolverhampton park last November.

He was originally from the Caribbean island of Anguilla, but stayed in Birmingham while recovering from cataract surgery.

He was described by his parents as a hard worker, who “liked” to help his mother with chores, worked for his father on weekends and always told them that one day he would “shine” and take care of them.

After the boys were found guilty of murder on Monday, chilling Snapchat messages between the pair came to light, including one in which a killer appears to shrug off the tragedy by declaring: “It is what it is.”

In the group conversation log, recovered by the police, the young people are told that ‘everyone’ is talking about the murder the night before.

“Someone got stabbed, everyone’s talking about it, literally everyone, everyone knows about it.”

One of the two responds with a ballot.

“It is what it is,” he says, wincing.

A friend says “I’m scared man” before one of the defendants coolly replies, “I’m not,” then adds, “Idrc,” slang for I don’t really care.

Mr Seesahai’s last moments were captured on CCTV footage showing the victim of the machete attack minutes walk to a park before he is murdered by Britain’s youngest knife killers.

The boys – who were allowed to play with fidget spinner toys while giving evidence – are expected to be sentenced next month.

The month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Court was told that Mr Seesahai was punched on the shoulder by the smaller of the two defendants, who ‘often’ carried a machete with a 16-inch blade, before being punched. kicked, stomped on and ‘chopped’. ‘ with the weapon.

The court heard they attacked the victim with such force that the machete almost passed through his body in one blow.

Mr Seesahai was pronounced dead at 9.11pm on November 13 last year after police were called to the scene at 8.37pm.

The father of the stabbing victim Suresh previously told Sky News that the parents must ‘pay attention’ to stop more senseless killings, adding that “children are dangerous now.”

He said: ‘He was always with me, from the moment he was born and growing up. When he was about sixteen, he started working for me. Whatever he knew, that I needed help [with] he would always be there for me.”

Mr Seesahai’s mother Manashwary added: ‘He is always there for us, a very sheltered child. He helped his father [at work] he helped me with all the tools [at] going home with the chores, he liked to do that.’