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The teenager who shot schoolboy Rhys Jones stabbed the killer of former altar boy Jimmy Mizen during a prison brawl, sources confirmed today. Sean Mercer, 18, attacked Jake Fahri, 19, with a pair of tweezers which had been sharpened and bound with tape...
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James Yates, 21, from Croxteth, Liverpool, was jailed for seven years at Liverpool Crown Court in January after being found guilty of two counts of assisting an offender and possessing a prohibited firearm. But today, after the case was referred to the...
Tags: Rhys Jones, gang member, Liverpool Crown Court, Court of Appeal
Last week saw gang member Sean Mercer jailed for the murder of Rhys Jones...The outpouring of grief and anger after his death was turned into something positive and we have seen the charity go from strength to strength. The support of the people of Liverpool...
Tags: Rhys Jones, Liverpool Daily Post
The parents of the boy who armed Rhys Jones's killer have pleaded guilty to lying to police over the schoolboy's murder. Frank Yates, 49, and wife Marie, 51, admitted perverting the course of justice when they appeared before Liverpool Crown Court. They...
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Moves to evict the mother of Rhys Jones's killer were postponed today until after she is sentenced for perverting the course of justice later this year. Janette Mercer, 49, who admitted perverting the course of justice over the 11-year-old schoolboy's...
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Janette Mercer, 49, changed her plea and admitted perverting the course of justice when she appeared at Liverpool Crown Court. Janette Mercer, 49, changed her plea and admitted perverting the course of justice when she appeared at Liverpool Crown Court...
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UK, Thursday January 29, 2009 Four members of a gang who tried to help Rhys Jones' killer evade justice are expected to learn of their punishment today. Rhys Jones was shot after football training in August 2007 Fellow 'Croxteth Crew' gang members James...
Tags: Rhys Jones, James Yates, gang member, Sean Mercer
THE teenage gun gangs whose bloody feud led to the murder of Rhys Jones are arming themselves for another deadly war. Rival Liverpool clans the Nogga Dogz and Croxteth Crew went to ground after the 11-year-old was shot dead in August last year.
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The Guardian Sean Mercer has committed the most brutal and wicked act in killing Rhys Jones and it's right he should be punished. His photograph on your front page (17 December) is headlined "Face of a killer".
Tags: liverpool, killing, Rhys Jones, police, Liverpool FC
Sean Mercer, a gun-obsessed teenager, was today sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones, one of Britain's youngest victims of gangland violence. In sentencing Mercer, the judge Mr Justice...
Tags: Sean Mercer, gets, 22years, imprisonment, Rhys Jones, killing, Liverpool