Two 12-year-old boys are found guilty of stabbing a 19-year-old stranger to death with a machete in Wolverhampton park.

Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of stabbing a stranger to death with a machete in a Wolverhampton park.

Jurors today unanimously convicted the two men, who are believed to be the youngest boys to commit a knife murder in the UK.

It also appears that these young people are the youngest to have been convicted of murder since the assassins of James Bulger in 1993.

During a month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Court, it was revealed Mr Seesahai was struck on the shoulder by the shorter of the two defendants, who “often” carried a machete with a blade 42.5 cm long, before being hit, kicked, trampled and “cut with the weapon.

The victim's friend told the trial he was forced to run for his life, but Mr Seesahai, 19, tripped as he tried to run away from the boys at the Stowlawn playgrounds in Wolverhampton on November 13 last year.

Mr Seesahai had traveled to Britain from the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla to receive medical treatment for his eyes.

The court heard he was pronounced dead at 9.11pm on November 13 last year, after police were called to the scene at 8.37pm.