Sneering threats of gang’s true target

A FORMER gang member at the centre of the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones has blasted filmmakers behind a new TV drama, snarling: “I’ll smash up their cameras.”

Wayne Brady – said to be the target in the 2007 gangland hit – branded producers “rats” for televising the horrific story of Rhys’s murder.

And he even complained the schoolboy’s heartbroken family would be furious that the drama was being aired.

But Rhys’s parents, Melanie and Steve, have said they are fully behind tomorrow night’s screening of the four-part ITV drama Little Boy Blue.

Brady, now 29, who still lives in Liverpool’s Croxteth area where innocent Rhys was shot dead, grinned before getting behind the wheel of a BMW.

He said: “They are rats for bringing that back up again.

“It was ten years ago. Everybody’s moved on. Even his parents won’t want it dragging up again after all this time.”

Producers refused to film at the scene of Rhys’s murder out of respect for the schoolboy’s family.

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But Brady said: “If I’d known where the set was I would’ve gone over there and smashed the cameras up.

“Why have they even bothered? There’s no point bringing it back up. It will put people into depression.

“I’m not even going to watch it. I’d probably smash the telly off the wall.”

Seven gang members were convicted over the killing but many have been released.

At least three have been sent back to prison for offences including drugs and violence.

Nathan Quinn was jailed for two years in 2008 after investigators recruited a 17-year-old boy as an undercover infiltrator.

Now 26-year-old Quinn, who was already serving a five-year sentence for buying guns, has said he doesn’t associate with snitches.

Quinn has also posted pictures posing on a powerful off-road KTM motorbike just streets away from where Rhys was gunned down.

A source said: “Rhys’s family will forever suffer the agony of losing their son. But some of those involved in his murder continue to flaunt their freedom while others refuse to abide by the law.”

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Earlier this year James Yates, 28, and Dean Kelly, 25, had drug charges dropped after witnesses were too scared to identify them.

They were accused of being part of a heroin-dealingaling ring, with Yates allegedly usingg threats and violence.

Yates, who gave the gun that killed Rhys to Sean Mercer, was recalled to prisonson and will remain in custody until 2020020 to serve his full 12-year term.

Meanwhile Gary Kays, now 34, was released inn 2011 after serving half hiss seven-year prison term for helpingng Mercer dispose of clothes and thee weapon and creating a falsee alibi.

But in 2014 brazen Kays, who drove a £30,000 Mercedes whilee on parole and fatheredhered a child while on day release, was jailed iled for three years and five months for r conspiring to supply class A drugs.

Melvin Coy, 34, was jailed for seven years for r assisting an offender following the murder.

He was released in 201111 along with Kaysys but sent back behind bars in 2015 after handling a stolen car fitted d with a trackingg device.