Teen killers in prison stabbing

The teenager who murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones has stabbed the killer of teen Jimmy Mizen in prison. [5 November 2009]

Sean Mercer, 18, attacked 19-year-old Jake Fahri in the exercise yard of HMP Moorland on Monday. A third teenager held Fahri down while Mercer attacked him, allegedly with a pair of tweezers which had been sharpened and bound with tape to make a knife. Fahri was sent to hospital while Mercer was sent to an isolation wing.

Teen murderers

Sean Mercer was 16-years-old when he shot Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007. He was jailed for at least 22 years. Jake Fahri murdered Jimmy Mizen in a London bakery with a glass dish in 2008 and was sent to prison for at least 14 years.

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