Timeline of tragedy: The latest victims of knife crime slain in the West Midlands
Another family is in mourning after a 13-year-old schoolboy joined the list of lives needlessly falling victim to the terrible grip of knife crime.
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A murder probe is underway in Oldbury after the youth, who has not yet been named, was found with fatal stab wounds at an address on Lovett Avenue at around 4pm on Thursday by the emergency services.
Meanwhile two Wolverhampton 12-year-old schoolboys are due to be sentenced for the shocking murder of visitor Shawn Seesahai.
The 19-year-old visitor, from the Caribbean island Anguilla, was stabbed to death while passing time in Wolverhampton’s Stowlawn Playing Fields off Laburnum Road near Bilston on November 13 last year.
The two 12-year-olds convicted of murdering him with a machete will be sentenced on September 27 at Nottingham Crown Court where the trial was held, due to the defendants being at secure units outside the West Midlands.
Mohammed Osman Khan, 45, died after being stabbed in Dudley on June 21. Annib Khan has since been charged with murdering him and Zayn Khan charged with affray relating to the same incident. Both men were due to stand trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court next year.
