Former Met Police detective Peter Bleksley wants Britain’s youngest knife killers to be named after their sentencing today.
The pair, both 13, have been handed life sentences with a minimum term of eight-and-a-half-years.
The killers, both from Wolverhampton, were convicted in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture on the city’s Stowlawn playing fields on November 13 last year.
Speaking on GB News, Bleksley raged at the pair possibly being released from jail ahead of their 21st birthday.
Bleksley wants the two murderers named
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“I’ve heard some call them children and boys”, he said.
“Here’s a fact. Here’s what they were. Lying, deceitful, savage, verminous, feral scum.
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Bleksley joined Martin Daubney on GB News
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“That’s what they were. They lied and blamed each other on trial. After the savage attack that took Shawn’s life, one of them cleaned the machete with bleach then hid it within the framework of a bed.
“Then one of them had the temerity to stand up in court and say they ‘wish they hadn’t gone to the park, they wish they hadn’t bought the machete and wish it hadn’t happened’.
“When really, they just wish they hadn’t been court.”
Bleksley raged at the pair’s attitude in court, saying they will “carry the sense of loss forever” and they “won’t cope with it”.
Shawn Seesahai was stabbed in Wolverhampton last NovemberWest Midlands Police
“These two might be out to enjoy cake and candles for their 21st birthdays, it’s beyond scandalous”, he told Martin Daubney.
He added: “We will never get to know who these murderous vermin are.
“We most certainly do have the right to know who they are. So when they are released, when they are 21 or 22, we can cross the road to avoid them.”
The killers are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Burger.
The pair, both now 13, cannot be named because of a court anonymity order.
The judge told the boys: “When you killed Shawn he was 19, starting out in his adult life with everything to live for.
“His parents have lost their son. His sister has lost her brother.
“What you did is horrific and shocking. You did not know Shawn, he was a stranger to you. You both killed Shawn in an attack that lasted less than a minute when he asked you to move (from a bench).
“I am sure you intended to kill him.”