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Thug who supplied gun which killed Rhys Jones, 11, free to return to site of murder

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A convicted thug who supplied the gun which killed 11-year-old schoolboy Rhys Jones has been released from jail and is free to return to the site of the murder, it has been revealed.

Rhys was gunned down on a notorious housing estate in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007 by then-18-year-old killer Sean Mercer. James Yates, now 32, supplied Mercer with the gun he used to kill the schoolboy, and later helped him destroy the evidence.

He was originally jailed for 12 years and was released early in 2018, before being re-arrested and jailed for breaching the terms of his parole last year.

Now it's been revealed he has been freed again, and as his original 12-year sentence has expired, he is also now free to return to Croxteth, just a few streets away

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