Inside Britain's youngest knife murderer - 'drill' videos in school and trouble 'always kicking off'

The boy was “mixed up” in the local drug scene and associating with older teens while still in primary school, before killing student Shawn Seesahai

‌Britain's youngest knife murderer was involved with violent gangs when he was just nine-years-old.

The boy was “mixed up” in the local drug scene and associating with older teens while still in primary school. The horrified parent of one classmate said the boy watched ‘drill’ videos promoting violent crime in primary school.

He later carried out a horrific machete attack with a fellow 12-year-old on tragic student Shawn Seesahai. The two youngsters brutally attacked the defenceless 19-year-old in a Wolverhampton park last November.

Shaun’s skull was broken after he was kicked, punched and stamped on before being knifed in the heart. The boys are Britain’s youngest murderers since the death of tragic toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993. The pair are also the country’s youngest-ever knife killers.

He was hooked on ‘drill’ videos - where masked and hooded rappers boast on camera of committing violent crimes. A classmate’s parent told the Mirror how they feared for their child’s safety being around the feral yob.

“You shouldn’t be worried about sending your kid to primary school, but that’s how it was back then,” they said. “I thought he was just acting the hard man, but it turned out he was actually in a gang and hanging around with all sorts.

“He didn’t often turn up to school but when he did there was always trouble kicking off. I wasn’t at all surprised to hear he’d gone on to kill someone, he was completely off the rails even before that.”

The murder horrified detectives found chilling pictures of knives on his mobile phone. His trial heard he idolised the drill rapper SJ - whose real name is Jayden O’Neill-Crichlow.

O’Neill-Crichlow is serving a life sentence for a machete murder in Wood Green, North London, in 2019. Another local said they had to install barbed wire and metal shutters on their home to keep the boy out. Shawn had travelled to the UK from the Caribbean island of Anguilla to have cataract surgery and further his education.

He was sitting on a bench when he was confronted by the two 12-year-olds for no reason and attacked. After the murder the boy obsessed with drill videos washed the machete with bleach in a bid to destroy evidence. He later revealed: “I heard it on music videos when they mention it, bleaching it.”

The youngster told detectives he bought the fearsome weapon for £40 off a “friend of a friend” because he thought it was “cool”. He told jurors he thought owning a knife would “be cool and make people scared”. During the trial the boy, who was allowed to play with a ‘fidget spinner’ in court, tried to blame his co-accused.

But the family and friends of the other 12-year-old insisted he was led astray by his “more streetwise” pal. One relative said: “He wasn’t an angel, but he also wasn’t a cold-blooded gangster like the other lad was. If he hadn’t met that lad then he wouldn’t be facing years behind bars, I’m convinced of that.”