What a desperately sad and shocking documentary this was. Sad because a decent family now have a lifetime of grieving for Rhys – an innocent 11 year old boy who died at the hands of a ruthless thug with shoes bigger than his IQ – and shocking because the revelations about gang culture were a terrible indictment on our society.

The film followed the story of how the police managed to secure a conviction against the murderer Sean Mercer and his violent, arrogant compatriots as well as chronicling the devastation wrought on Rhys’s family by his horribly untimely death.

During the film, Melanie, Rhys’s mum, told Mark Austin, “It was said a lot at the time that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. 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’ve been. It was Sean Mercer that shouldn’t have been there.” Read more & comment »