WikiWirral Online with you since 2003, fantastic.
Forum Statistics
Forums65
Topics76,352
Posts1,033,281
Members14,560
Most Online16,551
Feb 2nd, 2024
Who's Online Now
9 members (ArranGirl13, 3 invisible), 8,070 guests, and 433 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters
sunnyside 45,164
MattLFC 22,315
Mark 21,269
granny 17,788
_Ste_ 16,345
Newest Members
Kalena1962, rattus, Lisrush, Emotecreative, ArranGirl13
14,560 Registered Users
New General Forums
New Wirral History
Tall Brick Chimneys
by diggingdeeper - 16th Mar 2024 11:56am
D.I.Y. / Building Shop
by mharford91 - 3rd Mar 2024 8:53pm
1970's Murder in Central Park, Wallasey
by cutespam - 4th Aug 2018 10:28am
Old Hall in Higher Bebington
by Rhoobarb - 25th May 2010 5:55pm
Oleo Works
by Ducko - 14th May 2008 3:09pm
Top Posters(30 Days)
granny 14
casper 13
bri445 4
Topic Replies
What song are you listening to?
by diggingdeeper - 28th Mar 2024 6:06pm
Facial recognition coming in supermarkets?
by diggingdeeper - 27th Mar 2024 3:50pm
Bolts at Bebington Road
by diggingdeeper - 27th Mar 2024 2:33am
Hot Spot Chippie Broadway
by Excoriator - 26th Mar 2024 7:57pm
Tall Brick Chimneys
by diggingdeeper - 26th Mar 2024 5:43pm
Lost river (Well, brook really)
by diggingdeeper - 26th Mar 2024 3:09am
Old Hall in Higher Bebington
by diggingdeeper - 24th Mar 2024 5:58pm
Netflix 3 Body Problem.
by BultacoAstro - 22nd Mar 2024 8:04am
Wisper electric bike. 36v .
by Dilly - 21st Mar 2024 7:36pm
March
M T W T F S S
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Top Likes Received (30 Days)
Kylix 1
cools 1
Top Likes Received
bert1 14
Mark 4
granny 3
casper 3
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
_
_jase_
Unregistered
_jase_
Unregistered
_

Rhys Jones's mother blames bad parenting for his shooting


RHYS Jones’s mum has blamed bad parenting for his shooting.
Melanie Jones said she cannot understand the lifestyles and lack of aspirations of the seven people convicted of the killing.
[Linked Image]
She also admitted it angered her when people said Rhys was "in the wrong place at the wrong time".

Mrs Jones, 43, from Croxteth, said: "Rhys was where he should have been.

"It was Sean Mercer that shouldn’t have been there."

Eleven-year-old Rhys was gunned down in broad daylight by 16-year-old Sean Mercer as he walked home from football training through the car park of the Fir Tree pub in August 2007.

In a TV interview being broadcast tonight Mrs Jones, 43, said that she believed parenting was a factor in the tragedy.

She said: "I mean, we’re not saying we’re perfect because we’re not.

"But we’ve brought our sons up the best way that we could. We like to know where our sons were, who they’re with, what time they’ll be coming home. We knew their friends, what kind of friends they were, we knew their parents.

"But when you listen to the seven that were convicted over Rhys’s death... when you listen to what kind of life on a day-to-day basis. They get up at three o’clock in the afternoon, they have a weed, they play video games, they have another weed, they have another and that’s all they do, all day long.

"Or they hang around the streets and terrorise people. And you think, what kind of life have they got?

"Why don’t they want to do something else? Why don’t they aspire to be someone?"

Reflecting on life after Rhys, she said: "I don’t think we’ve gone through ’what ifs’ because Rhys was doing what he should have been doing.

"He was at football training, he was walking home.

"But the thing that really did upset us in the early days was that he was ’in the wrong place at the wrong time’.

"It was said a lot 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."

The documentary will show previously unseen video of Rhys and follow dad Stephen, 45, as he visits his son’s old football haunts, including Goodison Park, the home of his beloved Everton FC.

Mr Jones meets manager David Moyes, the boss of the Merseyside club, and describes the pain of attending games without Rhys.

He said: "Initially, when we came back to Goodison you’d be looking for his hand to hold because there’s a lot of people around when the match finishes.

"You’d be looking around, looking around for somebody’s hand to hold."

Real Crime: Rhys Jones - Caught In The Crossfire, tonight at 9pm on ITV.Monday, June 15.
In her first television interview since the sentencing of her son’s killer, Sean Mercer, she told ITV1’s Real Life documentary programme.

He was an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of an open battle between two teenage gangs in the area.

Mercer, 18, was convicted of murder at Liverpool Crown Court last December and must serve a minimum of 22 years before being eligible for parole.

James Yates, 20, Gary Kays, 26, Melvin Coy, 25, Nathan Quinn, 18, Dean Kelly, 17, and a juvenile known as Boy M were also found guilty of helping the killer cover up his crime.

Mercer’s mother, Janette, 49, was also jailed for three years for perverting the course of justice as she lied to detectives during the investigation

THE ECHO

Google Ads
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,344
Likes: 19
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,344
Likes: 19
Saying he was in the wrong place at the wrong time is a complete distraction from the fact - he was in the right place at the right time, unfortunately some scumbags were intent on their criminal activities. Throw them in the crowd at Goodison, or just strap them to the fence.


We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

https://ddue.uk

Moderated by  Mod 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Random Wirral Images

Click to View Topic.
Newest Topics
Facial recognition coming in supermarkets?
by Excoriator - 27th Mar 2024 10:52am
Hot Spot Chippie Broadway
by Excoriator - 26th Mar 2024 7:57pm
Bolts at Bebington Road
by Excoriator - 23rd Mar 2024 9:48am
Netflix 3 Body Problem.
by BultacoAstro - 22nd Mar 2024 8:04am
Tall Brick Chimneys
by diggingdeeper - 16th Mar 2024 11:56am
For Sale & Free
Wisper electric bike. 36v .
by Dilly - 21st Mar 2024 7:36pm
This is Elvis
by GingerTom - 17th Mar 2024 2:37pm
Member Spotlight
Dilly
Dilly
wallasey
Posts: 8,973
Joined: July 2011
Today's Birthdays
There are no members with birthdays on this day.
New Wirral Info
Facial recognition coming in supermarkets?
by Excoriator - 27th Mar 2024 10:52am
Hot Spot Chippie Broadway
by Excoriator - 26th Mar 2024 7:57pm
Bolts at Bebington Road
by Excoriator - 23rd Mar 2024 9:48am
Get your Money Tree ready
by keef666 - 22nd Mar 2023 12:27pm
Restaurant/pub with outdoor seating - Bromborough
by CarterUSM - 7th Aug 2020 7:59pm
News : New Topics
Gaza
by diggingdeeper - 29th Oct 2023 9:28am
Lost river (Well, brook really)
by Excoriator - 10th Sep 2019 8:50am
New Enthusiast Forums
Netflix 3 Body Problem.
by BultacoAstro - 22nd Mar 2024 8:04am
Xbox
by TudorBlue - 3rd Mar 2024 8:48pm
Wiper mechanism needed
by Peter0787 - 20th Feb 2024 4:07pm
What song are you listening to?
by - 24th Jun 2007 9:06am
Popular Topics(Views)
5,069,758 WIKI WALK CHAT
4,013,817 Spotted!
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5