Following a month-long trial at Nottingham Crown Court, jurors unanimously convicted them. They had denied the facts and tried during their trial to shift the responsibility to each other.
On November 13, the two boys, whose identities cannot be revealed for legal reasons, killed Shawn Seesahai, 19, with a machete, who was with friends in a park in Wolverhampton, a city in the center of England.
The victim – originally from Anguilla in the Caribbean and who had come to the UK to treat a cataract – was first struck in the shoulder by one of the two accused who often carried a machete with a blade measuring over 42 cm on him, before being hit again, trampled and finally killed.
The machete was found by the police under the bed of one of the two boys, cleaned with bleach.
The two children are the youngest convicted of murder in the UK since 1993, and may even be the youngest to commit a stabbing murder in the country, according to local media.
The age of criminal responsibility is 10 in England and Wales, meaning that a child over the age of 10 can be arrested and tried if they commit a crime.
The sentence will be pronounced later. Minors are treated differently from adults, including detention in specific secure centers and not in prisons.
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