A 12-year-old attached music by drill rapper SJ – who was part of an armed gang that hunted down and killed a 19-year-old father-of-one – to a picture of him posing with a machete that would later be used to commit a brutal murder. The boy claimed he’d bought the £40 knife from a ‘friend of a friend’ two months before he and another boy, 12, murdered Shawn Seesahai. Prior to 19-year-old Shawn being slain on Stownlawn playing fields, Wolverhampton, on November 13, 2023, jurors were told the image was forwarded to the boy’s girlfriend and his co-defendant. The youth had said he’d took the picture because he “thought it would be cool”. The snap had rapper SJ’s Prison Freestyle track attached to it, something he claimed was an accident. The boy, who claimed he ‘didn’t really listen to loads of SJ’s music’, said he was ‘not aware’ the singer was currently serving life for a machete murder committed in Wood Green, London, in 2019. READ MORE: Heartbroken parents of ‘loving’ machete attack victim say his young killers ‘don’t have to be locked up for life’ as long as it’s ‘fair’ SJ, whose real name is Jayden O’Neill-Crichlow, was jailed in 2020 for his role in the death of Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck. But despite being behind bars, SJ has clocked up millions of YouTube views with raps featuring lyrics about getting his knife “saucy”, or covered in blood. He also raps: “When they see me, they know what’s good, that’s attempted Ms [murders], Rambo’s in hood.” Although the 12-year-old killer denied being a fan of SJ, he admitted his decision to secretly bleach the blood-stained murder weapon was influenced by what he’d ‘heard in a music video’. During the trial at Nottingham Crown Court he described using ‘something like toilet bleach’ from his bathroom to clean the knife before hiding it under his bed, where it was later uncovered by police. During the trial, jurors were told an ‘utterly defenceless’ Shawn was walking towards a bench when he came across the boys. He suffered a ‘chop-type’ injury to his head, which pierced his scalp and slashed the bone. He also suffered a fatal stab wound to his back, which was 23cm deep, and ‘almost came out’ at the front of his body after going ‘all the way through his heart’. Shawn – who was originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean, but living in Handsworth at the time of his death – had ‘offered no violence and ‘done nothing to offend the two boys’, who cannot be named for legal reasons. At the end of the trial, both boys were convicted of murder. The first boy had previously admitted to having an article with a blade or a point, however the second had denied the charge, but was later found guilty by the jury. They will be sentenced at a later date.
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