Caribbean island Anguilla grieving Shawn Seesahai machete murder

“They killed my son like they kill a dog,” Shawn’s father Suresh told the BBC. “It’s brutal.”

“They stab him through and through. They kick him. They cuff him. He was helpless.”

News of Shawn’s murder travelled to the tiny British overseas territory quickly. A friend who had been with him that night rang his parents in Anguilla as police arrived at the scene in Wolverhampton.

It was his mother Maneshwary who answered the phone.

“I just dropped,” she says, describing her shock. “I don’t know what happened after.”

Shawn and his family are well known across Anguilla, and his death has had a huge impact on a very close-knit community.

At one of the basketball courts where Shawn used to play, his coaches tell us this was his happy place and he was the “jokester” on the team, and well-liked.

“There’s so many victims and so many people hurting. We have an island hurting,” Pamela Riley says.

“Everybody in The Valley, all the youths, they’re very upset. It’s very solemn.”