Two boys, 12, killed man with machete, court hears
Two 12-year-old boys used a machete to murder an "utterly defenceless" man, inflicting injuries to his skull and heart and slashing his legs, a court heard.
Shawn Seesahai, 19, died in November last year after being attacked on Stowlawn playing fields in East Park, Wolverhampton.
Jurors were told that he had offered no violence and done nothing to offend either of the boys but was hit so hard on the skull, that a "piece of bone had actually come away."
The accused pair, who cannot be named due to their age, both deny murder.
Opening the case at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, Michelle Heeley KC said: "Shawn Seesahai was murdered by being struck with a machete to his back, legs and skull.
"He was also beaten and kicked. The Crown say that these two defendants were jointly responsible for that attack."
Mr Seesahai, who lived in Handsworth, Birmingham but was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean, had travelled to the UK to receive treatment for cataracts.
On 13 November, he had travelled to Wolverhampton with friends, while the two defendants were together on the same afternoon, meeting two girls who were about the same age, both who are witnesses in the case.
The court heard one girl told police one of the boys had regularly carried a machete and that he and other boy "were passing it between themselves" on the day of the attack.
Ms Heeley described how the boys had gone out "armed with a lethal weapon" and "had been roaming the streets" while Mr Seesahai was "just with his friends."
Holding up the machete, she told the court: "It's understandable how a weapon of this type and size could cause fatal injuries in such a short space of time."
The trial continues.
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