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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
Rhys Jones's killer may launch an appeal against his 22-year murder sentence, it has been revealed. James Benson, solicitor for 18-year-old Sean Mercer, said "it is very much an option" that his legal team would seek grounds for appeal. James Benson,...
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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...
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Several of his co-defendants, members of the notorious Croxteth Crew gang, smirked in the dock and one turned rosary beads over in his hand as five were also convicted of a variety of serious offences related to the murder, including assisting an offender...
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A key prosecution witness was asked to change her story by a teenager accused of Rhys Jones' murder, a court has heard. Tape recordings from a bug placed at the home of Boy M, one of the co-defendants of Sean Mercer, 18, were played at Liverpool Crown...
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The Rhys Jones murder trial has heard that friends of his alleged killer helped him cover up the crime. Sean Mercer, 18, is charged with murdering the 11-year-old schoolboy and Everton fan as he crossed the Fir Tree pub in Croxteth Park, Liverpool, on...
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UK, Thursday October 09, 2008 Tom Parmenter, North of England correspondent The trial of a teenager accused of murdering schoolboy Rhys Jones will start later. Rhys Jones was shot dead before he had attended secondary school Rhys was shot dead in August...
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