SHAWN SEESAHAI was, by all accounts, a loving and hard-working young man.
He had told his mum: “I want to shine in my life.”
But Shawn didn’t get the chance to do that.
At the age of 19, he was hacked to death as he sat on a park bench in Wolverhampton.
His two killers were both 12 years old.
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There was seemingly no motive. It was an attack of depravity. A deranged and savage act.
We are not being told the names of the boys who carried it out, for their protection.
Sometimes we are a little too understanding when it comes to criminals, no matter how old they are.
Of course, it is the young age of Shawn’s attackers which really shocks.
Any murder of the kind which these two demented feral brats carried out makes us stop and think.
But when you factor in that they had only just left junior school, it seems scarcely believable.
Let’s be clear. When we are looking for causes for why this horrendous crime might have happened, we should remember one thing.
It was first and foremost a crime of individual wickedness, by each of the two killers.
Yes, they were children.
But I guess you all knew, when you were aged 12, that killing someone was a grave, mortal sin, didn’t you?
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So did they, no matter how thick they are.
I do wonder where their parents were in all this.
I am beginning to think parents should be held legally responsible when their offspring do something monumentally evil.
A bit like dog owners when their pets savage someone.
Because you don’t get to be 12 years old, and without a single vestige of morality, if your parents did even a half-decent job, do you.
Did the parents know where these kids were?
How were they not aware that one of them had bought a machete, later used in the killing, for £40?
How could they not know this pair were going out of an evening tooled up?
Why were these kids never taught the basics of right and wrong?
Bad decisions
Because whatever way you look at it, they were not brought up properly, were they?
And if that sounds like a stuffy, old-fashioned thing to say, well, I’m sorry but it’s true.
Let’s not pretend, as some on the Left will, that poverty led to these kids behaving like monsters.
There are many poor people in our country and they know right from wrong.
Poverty is no more to blame for the horrible way those children turned out than it is for obesity.
And yet some liberals try to make that case.
They point to the statistics which show that violent crime is far more prevalent on the bottom rung of society.
But that’s a false correlation.
It’s more likely that the bad decisions made by those people lead them down to the bottom rung.
Never believe sociological explanations which seek to remove individual respon-sibility, nor responsibility of the family.
Shawn was killed because we too often swallow those assumptions — when you remove individual and familial responsibility and instead blame the Tories or the state.
Take that approach and there will be more and more crimes like the hideous one in Wolverhampton by two kids whose parents, I suspect, let them down.
Bamboozled? Call in pandas
EXPERTS have been giving advice on how to get rid of bamboo.
Apparently the stuff is spreading across our country and is terribly difficult to eradicate.
The answer to this problem is obvious.
We need to ask the Chinese to bung us a bunch of pandas.
Let them loose in Godalming and Tring etc.
They’ll munch the stuff down in no time.
They’re useless for anything else, of course.
Thanks a lot, Rishi
THERE’S a warning that the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, might lose his seat on July 4.
This news about Mr Hunt immediately establishes itself at position 2,347 on my list of things I give a monkey’s about.
Have to say, it wouldn’t bother me terribly if they ALL lost their seats.
Apart from a couple of good ones like Miriam Cates and David Davis.
They are the architects of their own downfall.
And now they’re going to leave us in the hands of Starmer and Lammy.
Many, many thanks.
BETCHA that at the end of this month the Met Office dredges up some stats to prove this has been the warmest June on record.
Just as we’re all turning the heating back on.
They did that for damp, miserable, May, if you can remember.
I don’t doubt that global warming exists.
But I never trust a thing I’m told about all that warmest months stuff.
And when we’re wrapped up in woollies or soaked to the skin, I suspect it makes a lot of people doubt the whole thing.
Footie coming ho-hum
THAT performance against Iceland was the worst I have seen by an England football team in 58 years.
Gutless, witless, threatless.
Against a nation with a population about one 175th the size of our own.
England kick off in the Euros on Sunday, against Serbia.
I don’t much like the squad and am hugely unconvinced by the manager, Gareth Southgate.
But I will be prepared to forget all that if they can bring us some joy this summer.
Hell, I’ll even forget the knee-bending nonsense.
Good luck Gareth, and good luck England.
Boy, do they both need it.
Mob is at fool pelt
WHY does the kinder, gentler Left think it’s perfectly OK to pelt Nigel Farage with cement?
Or, for that matter, milkshakes?
The truth is, these people are thoroughly nasty enemies of democracy.
Absolutists who want their political opponents maimed or silenced.
It can be a dangerous thing to be an MP, if you have a sense of principle.
Take the courageous Labour MP for Canterbury, Rosie Duffield.
She lives with threats and abuse continually.
She recently had to spend £2,000 on security to protect her from the violent nutters who object to her entirely sensible views on transgender stuff.
The police ought to take this business far more seriously than they currently do.
You may not always like them, but MPs need our protection.
SO, huge gains for the populist parties across Europe.
Or, as the BBC prefers to put it, the Far Right.
This has been coming for a long time.
People are sick of unrestrained immigration.
They’re sick of ghettos in their major cities.
And they’re bored beyond measure by wokery.
They’re pretty tired of the EU, too.
We were right to get the hell out, even if we haven’t made the best of it.
The same change will come here, in time.
But it will take longer because of our electoral system.
Smaller parties are discriminated against so it takes them longer to break through.
Quality quizzing
HERE’S the latest little nugget of brilliance from Tipping Point.
Who was the general who led his men over the Alps with the use of elephants?
Quite a few of you will remember the name of Hannibal.
And maybe some of you won’t.
But I bet none of you would reply the way a woman did, with great confidence, on Ben Shephard’s quiz show.
“Captain Kirk,” she said.
Yup, Captain Kirk.
That’ll be the one . . .
ONCE again, Hamas has signed itself up to a ceasefire agreement.
And then immediately reneged on the deal.
It now wants a whole bunch of other conditions written in.
Why don’t those protesters demanding a ceasefire have a word with their friends in Hamas?
It is they, not the Israelis, who are the biggest cause of bloodshed in Gaza.
