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Killer of Rhys Jones 11-yr-Old Football Fan, Beaten in Jail For Boasting About Death
The Murder of Rhys Jones 11-yr-Old Football Fanatic
Teenage gang warfare in Liverpool UK claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy who was shot to death by a stray bullet on his way home from Football Practice
Daily Mirror, 1 AUG 2021.
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On August 22, 2007, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot in the back by a stray bullet in the midst of a gang war that had plagued the Croxteth and Norris Green estates in Liverpool for almost a decade.
Rhys Jones had no affiliation to the gangs in Liverpool and was merely making his way home from football practice when he and his friends made the fateful decision to cross the Fir Tree Pub car park.
Killer Sean Mercer
Some time earlier in 2007, a “young scally,” as the locals would say, named Sean Mercer had received an Anti-Social Behaviour Order from the Courts for terrorising a security guard at a local Shopping Centre with close friend Dean Kelly, age 17
Local teenage gang member Sean Mercer was found guilty of his murder more than a year later and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 22 years.
T
he “Crocky Crew” gang received various sentances
Mercer was 16 at this time and was keen to make a name for himself among the leaders of the “Crocky Crew” gang to whom he was affiliated. His desperation to escalate in the ranks of the Crocky Crew and his hatred of the rival Strand Gang member –Wayne Brady – is what eventually would lead to the untimely death of Rhys Jones.
Rhys Jones Trial: Footage Shown to Jury
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