Stay With Me, Rhys: The heartbreaking story of Rhys Jones, by his mother. As seen on ITV’s new documentary Police Tapes

The heart-breaking story of Rhys Jones, told by his mother.

It's a Wednesday afternoon in the summer holidays, and Mel is expecting her youngest back for tea very soon. But instead she receives a frantic telephone call. Rhys has been shot on his way home.

From that fateful day when Mel cradled her child as he lay dying, repeating to him ‘Stay with Me, Rhys’, to the day in court when his killers were finally sent down, this is a story of a family in trauma, of a community united behind them and of how a notorious local gang who terrorised the neighbourhood was brought to justice.

In 2017, more than 7 million people watched the drama unfold in the highly-acclaimed ITV series Little Boy Blue. And now Mel Jones tells the family's unbelievable story for the first time.

Mel, her husband Steve and Rhys’s brother Owen have been through unimaginable pain. The grief doesn’t go away, but the strength they’ve found within it is an inspiration.