A 12-year-old boy convicted of the machete homicide of teenager Shawn Seesahai idolised a drill rapper who sang about utilizing a rambo knife to assault somebody and ‘rip by way of guts’.
The boy and an confederate, additionally 12, have been discovered responsible yesterday of ambushing the 19-year-old in a park in Wolverhampton final November.
His trial heard how the boy – who owned the homicide weapon – was fascinated by knives and adopted by London drill rapper SJ, actual title Jayden O’Neill-Crichlow, who’s at the moment serving life in jail for an additional machete homicide.
SJ (slim Jim) is serving a life sentence for killing a gang rivals and his tracks often function shockingly violent lyrics, together with references to blades being ‘saucy’ – which means coated in blood.
The boy despatched his younger co-defendant and a schoolgirl and a picture of himself with the 16-inch zombie knife that they used to kill Mr Seesahai with the caption ‘Jail Freestyle’ – the title of certainly one of O’Neill-Crichlow’s songs.
Tracks by SJ, actual title Jayden O’Neill-Crichlow, often function shockingly violent lyrics, together with references to utilizing a knife to ‘rip by way of guts’
O’Neill-Crichlow (left, with Tim Westwood) was supplied a £150,000 recording deal whereas in jail for homicide
The 12-year-old killer of teenager Shawn Seesahai – who was a fan of O’Neill-Crichlow – poses with the machete he and a second boy used to homicide him
The pair – who can’t be named resulting from their age – are believed to be the youngest convicted murderers since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, each aged 11, have been discovered responsible in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger.
In February 2019, O’Neill-Crichlow was a part of a gaggle wielding knives, a Samurai sword and a gun who murdered a 19-year-old father Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck in Wooden Inexperienced.
A 12 months later, aged 17, he was sentenced alongside 4 different members of the Tottenham-based NPK gang to a minimal of 21 years behind bars.
O’Neill-Crichlow – a member of drill rap group OFB (Authentic Farm Boys) carried out with Tim Westwood and appeared in a YouTube video with the previous BBC Radio 1 DJ, posted on-line not lengthy after his arrest.
And at his sentencing, it emerged the teenager rapper had been supplied the £150,000 recording contract whereas on remand in jail awaiting trial.
The trial of Shawn Seesahai’s 12-year-old killer heard how he was a fan of SJ and knew he was a rapper who creates freestyle verses.
However the boy claimed he was unaware of O’Neill-Crichlow’s conviction and ‘did not hearken to masses’ of his music.
Since being jailed, O’Neill-Crichlow has posted tunes on YouTube utilizing an unlawful cell phone glorifying gang homicide and describing how he ‘went insane’ aged 14.
O’Neill-Crichlow’s monitor Youngest In Cost contains lyrics about getting his ‘shank’ (knife) ‘saucy’ (bloodied)
Aged 17, the rapper was sentenced alongside 4 different members of the Tottenham-based NPK gang to a minimal of 21 years behind bars
Within the outdated video, uploaded simply hours after his preliminary trial listening to and which was considered almost 50,000 instances, he additionally described how he ‘put three opps [gang rivals] on my blade’.
The drill crew he’s a member of – the OFB collective – additionally posted from its YouTube account a video for {the teenager}’s music Youngest In Cost, which incorporates lyrics about getting his ‘shank saucy [knife covered in blood]’ and the road, ‘I simply see an opp [rival], let me take him out’ adopted by the sound of gunshots.
In 2020, O’Neill-Crichlow posted a brand new monitor from inside his cell by which he described how laborious jail life is and his remorse concerning the homicide.
Within the almost one-minute lengthy monitor, the killer mentioned he was ‘rolling spherical with little children’ however was now ‘locked up with some greater fish’.
He additionally spoke about how in jail he has ‘loopy fights with guys I do not know’ and that ‘the life I dwell is completely different, driving reverse to jail’ now.
Of the day of the homicide, O’Neill-Crichlow mentioned, ‘I simply thought it was a day trip’ after which ‘I bought paid and now it performed out’, alongside loud night breathing emojis.
He additionally raps about how he misses his household saying, ‘my brother and my sisters love me from a distance’ and ‘yeah my brother seen me cry, I hugged my brother and I kissed him’.
The rap video included damaged coronary heart and unhappy face emojis with captions saying ‘miss as of late’ alongside cellphone footage of him hanging out along with his buddies.
In 2020, O’Neill-Crichlow posted a brand new monitor from inside his cell by which he described how laborious jail life is and his remorse concerning the homicide
Within the almost one-minute lengthy monitor, the killer mentioned he was ‘rolling spherical with little children’ however was now ‘locked up with some greater fish’
His sufferer, Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, was stabbed to demise at a hair salon in Wooden Inexperienced, north London, in 2020
In one other line he mentioned: ‘I am sitting in a cage, consuming dinners I am unable to take out.’ He then added: ‘I noticed music as a means out. Bother I can keep out.’
In direction of the tip of the clip, the teenager mentioned, ‘I wanna change my life, this life I am getting sick of’, with a damaged coronary heart and praying emoji beneath.
Regardless of Shawn Seesahai’s younger killer insisting he didn’t hearken to a considerable amount of O’Neill-Crichlow’s music, his conviction will elevate contemporary questions concerning the hyperlink between drill music and real-life knife crime.
A month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Courtroom was instructed how the sufferer was shoulder-barged earlier than being punched, kicked, stamped on and ‘chopped’ at with a machete.
The courtroom heard that they attacked the sufferer with such power that in a single blow the machete nearly handed by way of his physique.
Mr Seesahai, from Anguilla within the Caribbean, was additionally slashed within the legs, kicked, punched and hit so laborious on the cranium {that a} piece of bone got here away, prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC mentioned.
WOLVERHAMPTON MURDER VICTIM: Shawn Seesahai, 19, was hacked to demise by two 12-year-old boys in a park in November 2023
A picture retrieved from the cellphone of one of many attackers exhibiting lengthy knives and swords on a mattress
Officers searched a space for storing below one of many children’ mattress and recovered a machete. He instructed the jury he purchased the blade as he thought it was ‘cool’
He died at 9.11pm on November 13 final 12 months after police have been known as to the scene at 8.37pm.
Proof on the killer boy’s cellphone confirmed the youth had looked for machetes on-line on websites the place the lethal weapons have been on the market for as little as £20.
The boy, who clutched an anti-fidgeting machine/toy on the stand, instructed jurors he purchased the machete as a result of he ‘thought it was cool’ to have one – and mentioned that following the homicide he had cleaned the blade with bleach as a result of ‘I heard it on music movies once they point out it, bleaching it.’
He claimed that fairly than sourcing the weapon on-line, he had paid ‘a buddy of a buddy’ £40 for the homicide weapon two months earlier than he killed Mr Seesahai.
The Snapchat messages the 2 killers despatched to one another after they butchered Mr Seesahai to demise
CCTV footage has revealed his final moments of stabbed teenager Shawn Seesahai. The 19-year-old was murdered by Britain’s youngest knife killers
