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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ryan Merrifield

Mum of Rhys Jones' killer Sean Mercer admits helping one of her sons to evade justice

The mum of Rhys Jones' killer Sean Mercer has admitted helping another of her sons to evade the law.

Janette Mercer was jailed for three years in 2009 for perverting the course of justice, having told lies to detectives investigating the 11-year-old's murder.

Her son Sean Mercer was 16 when he shot and killed schoolboy Rhys in Liverpool on August 22, 2007 by the Fir Tree pub as he walked home from football training.

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