Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer writes for the Star with a promise to outlaw sales of zombie blades and machetes.

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When I read the details of Shawn Seesahai’s murder in East Park last November, I was shocked to my core.

I led our country’s Crown Prosecution Service for five years, but I have never encountered a case like this.

That a murder so brutal could be carried out by 12-year-olds is something hard to believe. How do young children have access to machetes?

Unfortunately, this question has hung, unanswered, over communities across the West Midlands for too long. Because Shawn is sadly not the first young man to have had a lifetime of potential stolen from him........

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