Little Boy Blue

April. 24,2017      
Rating:
7.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Based on a true story that shocked a nation, this powerful four-part factual drama, from BAFTA winning writer and executive producer Jeff Pope (Appropriate Adult, The Widower), centres on the devastating impact on a city of an innocent child’s murder amid a wave of gang violence. In August 2007, while walking home from football practice in his England kit, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was unwittingly caught in the crossfire of a gang war. Shot in the neck outside the Fir Tree pub in Liverpool’s Croxteth, he died in his mother’s arms. Made with the support of Rhys’s parents, Melanie and Steve, Little Boy Blue explores their ordeal and looks at the agonising dilemmas of witnesses faced with becoming pariahs for speaking up. It tells the story of the long and extensive investigation, led by Merseyside Police SIO David Kelly, that eventually brought Rhys’s murderer and his associates to justice.

Stephen Graham as  SIO David Kelly
Heather Bleasdale as  Vida Moody
Brían F. O'Byrne as  Steve Jones
Stephen Walters as  DCI Mark Guinness
Elizabeth Berrington as  Debra Taylor
Gerard Horan as  Prosecution Barrister
Jason Thorpe as  Defence Barrister
Andrew Schofield as  Kenny Richmond
Christine Tremarco as  Marie Thompson
Neil Fitzmaurice as  Neil Jones