Mum of Rhys Jones killer Sean Mercer is getting abuse on the streets after Little Boy Blue exposed her wicked lies to protect son
SEAN Mercer’s mum is enduring a campaign of hate from neighbours and strangers over the wicked lies she told to protect her killer son.
Ex-hooker Janette suffers a barrage of abuse every time she goes go out – with passers-by taking snaps of her and sharing the images on social media.
Lying Janette – her hand in a brace – was even photographed sitting in a work assessment centre in Liverpool.
The images were placed on Facebook with the person who took the snaps saying: “Sean Mercers mum sitting so f******g proud last week scummy bitch I didn't give a f*** if she seen me taking the picture.”
She no longer lives in the Croxteth area of the city where her son slayed Rhys Jones in a bungled gangland hit as he made his way home from football training.
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Janette Mercer – exposed as working as a £50-a-time hooker during the Rhys murder trial — received three years in prison for hiding her gunman son.
She told cops a “pack of lies” to protect him from the law.
In the hit drama series Little Boy Blue, the cop who solved the case was seen pointing across to her character during the murder trial and telling Rhys’ parents: “I’m going to have her.”
She lied for over a year about the getaway bike used by her son after he shot dead the 11-year-old lad.
Jailing her in 2009, Judge Globe QC said: “You backed up your son and told more lies.”
The sex worker cut a chaotic figure in court – laughing one minute before breaking down in tears the next – while Rhys’s parents Stephen and Melanie Jones remained calm and dignified.
Several others were also convicted of helping Mercer, including other gang members and their parents.
James Yates and Dean Kelly were jailed after supplying the firearm and helping to hide Mercer when he was on the run.
And Yates’ mum Marie and her husband Frank were jailed for 18 months after admitting perverting the course of justice and burning evidence.
Marie got three further years for helping Mercer with a false alibi. Her gangster son was jailed for seven years.
Rhys’ dad said later: “In our eyes they have always been as guilty as their sons.
“For us, no prison sentence for these people would be long enough.”
Janette was released from jail in 2012.
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