On 22 August 2007, eleven-year-old Rhys Milford Jones was shot and killed in Croxteth, Liverpool, while walking home from football practice. The murder drew national attention and led to the conviction of Sean Mercer, aged 16 at the time, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years.

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Croxteth Hall

Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton. After the death of the seventh and last Earl in 1972, the estate passed to Liverpool City Council, which now manages the remainder of the estate following the sale of approximately half of the grounds. The remaining grounds, Croxteth Park, were at one time a hunting chase of the Molyneux family and are now open to the public.
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Croxteth (Liverpool ward)

Croxteth ward is an electoral division of Liverpool City Council. The ward is in the Liverpool West Derby parliamentary constituency.
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Stonebridge Park, Liverpool

Stonebridge Park is a new business park under construction in Gillmoss on the outskirts of Liverpool, created by St. Modwen Properties with the help of Liverpool Vision. The park lies close to the East Lancs Road the A580 road on the border of the Fazakerley and Croxteth areas of the city.
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Liverpool West Derby

Liverpool, West Derby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Ian Byrne of the Labour Party.