A 12-year-old lad convicted of the machete execution of teen Shawn Seesahai idolised a drill rapper who sang astir utilizing a rambo weapon to onslaught idiosyncratic and 'rip done guts'.
The lad and an accomplice, besides 12, were recovered blameworthy yesterday of ambushing the 19-year-old successful a parkland successful Wolverhampton past November.
His proceedings heard however the lad - who owned the execution limb - was fascinated by knives and followed by London drill rapper SJ, existent sanction Jayden O'Neill-Crichlow, who is presently serving beingness successful situation for different machete murder.
SJ (slim Jim) is serving a beingness condemnation for sidesplitting a pack rivals and his tracks regularly diagnostic shockingly convulsive lyrics, including references to blades being 'saucy' - meaning covered successful blood.
The lad sent his young co-defendant and a schoolgirl and an representation of himself with the 16-inch zombie weapon that they utilized to termination Mr Seesahai with the caption 'Prison Freestyle' - the sanction of 1 of O'Neill-Crichlow's songs.
Tracks by SJ, existent sanction Jayden O'Neill-Crichlow, regularly diagnostic shockingly convulsive lyrics, including references to utilizing a weapon to 'rip done guts'
O'Neill-Crichlow (left, with Tim Westwood) was offered a £150,000 signaling woody portion successful jailhouse for murder
The 12-year-old slayer of teen Shawn Seesahai - who was a instrumentality of O'Neill-Crichlow - poses with the machete helium and a 2nd lad utilized to execution him
The brace - who cannot beryllium named owed to their property - are believed to beryllium the youngest convicted murderers since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, some aged 11, were recovered blameworthy successful 1993 of sidesplitting two-year-old James Bulger.
In February 2019, O'Neill-Crichlow was portion of a group wielding knives, a Samurai sword and a weapon who murdered a 19-year-old father Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck successful Wood Green.
A twelvemonth later, aged 17, helium was sentenced alongside 4 different members of the Tottenham-based NPK pack to a minimum of 21 years down bars.
O'Neill-Crichlow - a subordinate of drill rap radical OFB (Original Farm Boys) performed with Tim Westwood and appeared successful a YouTube video with the erstwhile BBC Radio 1 DJ, posted online not agelong aft his arrest.
And astatine his sentencing, it emerged the teen rapper had been offered the £150,000 signaling declaration portion connected remand successful situation awaiting trial.
The proceedings of Shawn Seesahai's 12-year-old slayer heard however helium was a instrumentality of SJ and knew helium was a rapper who creates freestyle verses.
But the lad claimed helium was unaware of O'Neill-Crichlow's condemnation and 'didn't perceive to loads' of his music.
Since being jailed, O'Neill-Crichlow has posted tunes connected YouTube utilizing an amerciable mobile telephone glorifying pack execution and describing however helium 'went insane' aged 14.
O'Neill-Crichlow's way Youngest In Charge includes lyrics astir getting his 'shank' (knife) 'saucy' (bloodied)
Aged 17, the rapper was sentenced alongside 4 different members of the Tottenham-based NPK pack to a minimum of 21 years down bars
In the aged video, uploaded conscionable hours aft his archetypal proceedings proceeding and which was viewed astir 50,000 times, helium besides described however helium 'put 3 opps [gang rivals] connected my blade'.
The drill unit helium is simply a subordinate of - the OFB corporate - besides posted from its YouTube relationship a video for the teenager's opus Youngest In Charge, which includes lyrics astir getting his 'shank saucy [knife covered successful blood]' and the line, 'I conscionable spot an opp [rival], fto maine instrumentality him out' followed by the dependable of gunshots.
In 2020, O'Neill-Crichlow posted a caller way from wrong his compartment successful which helium described however hard situation beingness is and his regret astir the murder.
In the astir one-minute agelong track, the slayer said helium was 'rolling circular with small kids' but was present 'locked up with immoderate bigger fish'.
He besides spoke astir however successful situation helium has 'crazy fights with guys I don't know' and that 'the beingness I unrecorded is different, riding other to prison' now.
Of the time of the murder, O'Neill-Crichlow said, 'I conscionable thought it was a time out' and past 'I got paid and present it played out', alongside snoring emojis.
He besides raps astir however helium misses his household saying, 'my member and my sisters emotion maine from a distance' and 'yeah my member seen maine cry, I hugged my member and I kissed him'.
The rap video included breached bosom and bittersweet look emojis with captions saying 'miss these days' alongside telephone footage of him hanging retired with his friends.
In 2020, O'Neill-Crichlow posted a caller way from wrong his compartment successful which helium described however hard situation beingness is and his regret astir the murder
In the astir one-minute agelong track, the slayer said helium was 'rolling circular with small kids' but was present 'locked up with immoderate bigger fish'
His victim, Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, was stabbed to decease astatine a hairsbreadth salon successful Wood Green, northbound London, successful 2020
In different enactment helium said: 'I'm sitting successful a cage, eating dinners I can't instrumentality out.' He past added: 'I saw euphony arsenic a mode out. Trouble I tin enactment out.'
Towards the extremity of the clip, the teen said, 'I wanna alteration my life, this beingness I'm getting sick of', with a breached bosom and praying emoji underneath.
Despite Shawn Seesahai's young slayer insisting helium did not perceive to a ample magnitude of O'Neill-Crichlow's music, his condemnation volition rise caller questions astir the nexus betwixt drill euphony and real-life weapon crime.
A month-long proceedings astatine Nottingham Crown Court was told however the unfortunate was shoulder-barged earlier being punched, kicked, stamped connected and 'chopped' astatine with a machete.
The tribunal heard that they attacked the unfortunate with specified unit that successful 1 stroke the machete astir passed done his body.
Mr Seesahai, from Anguilla successful the Caribbean, was besides slashed successful the legs, kicked, punched and deed truthful hard connected the skull that a portion of bony came away, authoritative Michelle Heeley KC said.
WOLVERHAMPTON MURDER VICTIM: Shawn Seesahai, 19, was hacked to decease by 2 12-year-old boys successful a parkland successful November 2023
An representation retrieved from the telephone of 1 of the attackers showing agelong knives and swords connected a bed
Officers searched a retention abstraction nether 1 of the youngsters' furniture and recovered a machete. He told the assemblage helium bought the leaf arsenic helium thought it was 'cool'
He died astatine 9.11pm connected November 13 past twelvemonth aft constabulary were called to the country astatine 8.37pm.
Evidence connected the slayer boy's telephone showed the younker had searched for machetes online connected sites wherever the deadly weapons were for merchantability for arsenic small arsenic £20.
The boy, who clutched an anti-fidgeting device/toy connected the stand, told jurors helium bought the machete due to the fact that helium 'thought it was cool' to person 1 – and said that pursuing the execution helium had cleaned the leaf with bleach due to the fact that 'I heard it connected euphony videos erstwhile they notation it, bleaching it.'
He claimed that alternatively than sourcing the limb online, helium had paid 'a person of a friend' £40 for the execution limb 2 months earlier helium killed Mr Seesahai.
The Snapchat messages the 2 killers sent to each different aft they butchered Mr Seesahai to death
CCTV footage has revealed his past moments of stabbed teen Shawn Seesahai. The 19-year-old was murdered by Britain's youngest weapon killers
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