"It was said a lot that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and that used to upset us because we were thinking he wasn't in the wrong place and it wasn't the wrong time. Rhys was where he should have been. It was Sean Mercer that shouldn't have been there." Melanie Jones, mother of Rhys Jones.
It was a murder that shocked the nation. An 11-year-old boy gunned down as he walked home from football practice. An innocent child caught in the crossfire of open warfare between teenage gangs.
Using CCTV and police footage and interviews with Detective Supt Dave Kelly and the Crown Prosecution Service, the program examines the difficulties that arose as the police attempted to build a case against Mercer and his gang, The Crocky Crew.
From the beginning, police were tipped off that then sixteen-year-old Sean Mercer was the murderer. It was believed that he was shooting at members of The Crocky Crew's sworn rivals The Strand Gang. One of the bullets hit Rhys Jones instead.
But police had little forensic evidence from the crime scene, fuzzy CCTV footage and the local community were reluctant to give evidence against the violent gang. As months went by, the police were under pressure from the media to bring charges.
Rhys Milford Jones
September 27 1995 - August 22 2007
♥RIP Rhys♥
♦ Rhys Jones - Rest in Peace ♦
♦ https://tinyurl.com/t7qzrxj ♦
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