Chilling voice note sent between killers of teenager Shawn Seesahai on Snapchat shrugs ‘It is what it is’ after they murdered him in horrifying machete attack
Hang out Snapchat Messages sent between two 12-year-old boys found guilty of a machete attack on a teenager have revealed one person said of the stabbing: “It is what it is.”
The boys are believed to have become Britain’s youngest knife killers after stabbing 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai through the heart in a Wolverhampton park.
After their conviction, social media exchanges came to light involving her and a girl witness, who later went to a police station with her mother to make a statement.
The conversation recovered by police begins when one of the killers says on Snapchat about the stabbing: “Everyone is talking about it, literally everyone, everyone knows.”
The other of the pair who were both found guilty of murder Nottingham Crown Court yesterday – then responds with a ballot and says: ‘It is what it is.’
They then shared more messages, saying: ‘I’m scared man’ – before the other says ‘I’m not’, followed by the acronym ‘IDRC’ which means ‘I don’t really care’.
The Snapchat messages the two killers sent to each other after killing Suresh Seesahai
The other then responds with a ballot that says, “I don’t say anything (sic) because apparently every time I talk about it I act weird, so (inaudible) comes and goes.”
A response then follows: ‘I’m just scared of you (sic).’
Yesterday, relatives of both Mr Seesahai 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.
They are believed to be the youngest defendants to be convicted of murder in Britain since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty of murdering two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.
In an interview released after the verdicts, Seesahai’s parents, Suresh and Maneshwary, said they will never be able to get over the loss of their son, who always told them he would “shine” and take care of them .
The victim, Suresh Seesahai (pictured), was punched on the shoulder by the smaller of the two defendants before being punched, kicked, stomped and ‘chopped’ with the weapon.
One of the 12-year-olds found guilty of Shawn Seesahai’s murder even posed for a photo with his machete tucked into the top of his pants hours before committing the murder
A month-long trial was told Seesahai was hit on the shoulder by the smaller of the two defendants, who ‘often’ carried a machete with a 42.5cm blade.
He was then hit, kicked, stomped and ‘chopped’ with the weapon.
The victim’s friend told the trial he was forced to run for his life but Mr Seesahai stumbled as he tried to flee from the boys on Wolverhampton’s playing fields in Stowlawn on November 13 last year.
After refusing to answer police questions in the aftermath of the murder, the boys both gave evidence to jurors, blaming each other for delivering the fatal blow.
The young people not only managed to call for help for Mr Seesahai, but also showed no remorse for what they had done in the 24 hours before their arrest: one of them cleaned the machete with bleach and hid it under his bed .
An image retrieved from a phone of one of the boys with long knives and swords on a bed
CCTV footage revealed Shawn Seesahai’s last moments as he headed to the park
They told the court they both played video games in the hours after the murder and claimed they did not know Mr Seesahai had died until the next day.
Jurors heard one of the defendants posing, wearing a mask, with the murder weapon hours before the murder, and eleven bloodstains were found on his clothing.
The boy was also seen with blood on his hands in the aftermath of the murder, while his friend had a small spot of bloodstains on his right trainer.
Mr Seesahai, a stranger to the two boys, was pronounced dead at 9.11pm after police and paramedics were called to the scene.
It is expected that the boys will be sentenced at a date to be determined in July.
