Bloodstains, phone evidence and witness accounts exposed young machete killers

One of the 12-year-olds found guilty of murdering Shawn Seesahai had an obsession with knives – even posing for a snap with his machete tucked into the top of his trousers hours before he committed murder.

The picture sent from the youth’s mobile phone, showing him masked near railings in the street, is believed to have been taken at around 1am.

Jurors were told the image was forwarded to the boy’s girlfriend and his co-defendant with rapper SJ’s Prison Freestyle track attached to it.

During the youth’s evidence to the court, he claimed he had accidentally attached the song, , in 2019.