Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
A 17-YEAR-OLD yesterday denied the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones, 11, who was shot dead in a pub car park in Croxteth, Merseyside, on 22 August last year as he walked ho
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
At around 7am yesterday Merseyside officers, working on behalf of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), raided two houses – one in Allerton and another in Croxteth.
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Merseyside Police have arrested 11 people in connection with the murder of Rhys Jones. Rhys, 11, was shot dead in Croxteth, Liverpool, last August. Two youths and two men have been arrested on suspicion of his murder. Two teenagers, two men and two woman are being held on various other charges
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Four males aged 17, 24, 25, and 16 have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 11-year-old in Croxteth Park, Merseyside in August last year.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Four males aged 17, 24, 25, and 16 have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 11-year-old in Croxteth Park, Merseyside in August last year.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Four males aged 17, 24, 25, and 16 have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 11-year-old in Croxteth Park, Merseyside in August last year.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 21/02/2008
TOMORROW marks the six- month anniversary of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth Park, a crime which touched the hearts not just of Merseyside, but of the whole nation.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
DAVID FORRESTER (St Helens-Sutton AC) became the first athlete from a St Helens club since 1989 to win the Liverpool and District cross country individual title when he defeated Merseyside County Champion, Richard Burney (Liverpool) by 40 metres at Croxteth Park.
Five Live Breakfast (Free subscription) | 28/01/2008
Breakfast's Shelagh Fogarty got first hand evidence of the problem of gun crime while filming for a TV documentary in Liverpool. Read all about it here . There's been reaction on Merseyside - read it here Read more about Croxteth...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 25/01/2008
Suburbia has of late been home to shootings (Croxteth, Merseyside and Letchworth, Hertfordshire), suicide bombers (Beeston, Leeds), playground stabbings (Edgware, Middlesex), assertive ethnic workers (the Gate Gourmet staff at Heathrow) and an electorally advancing far right (Barking and Dagenham). Eh? Barking and Dagenham, suburbs? Letchworth was a New Town (very much the opposite of a suburb) [...]...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2007
MURDER squad detectives investigating the Rhys Jones killing have announced a campaign to find two crucial witnesses. Rhys, 11, was shot in Croxteth Park, Merseyside.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 25/09/2007
THE long-term government crackdown on gun and gang culture, outlined by the prime minister yesterday following the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, finds a very specific raft of local measures in Croxteth and other trouble hot spots, announced by Merseyside chief constable Bernard Hogan-Howe in today's ECHO.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2007
Merseyside Police reveal a crackdown on gang activity in Croxteth, in the wake of the murder of Rhys Jones.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 26/08/2007
News of Rhys Jones's shooting first began to unfold on Merseyside's local radio stations' news bulletins on Wednesday evening. The inferences were clear. Croxteth. Gun slaying. Pub car park. The only variance ? and the thing that had the phone-ins humming with indignation ? was the age of the victim. "What must the parents be thinking of?" came the resounding message. "Letting a kid of 11 join a gang...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/08/2007
A senior Merseyside police officer last night admitted that Rhys Jones may have been the innocent victim of renewed tension between youths from estates in the Croxteth and Norris Green areas of Liverpool.
