A teenager charged in connection with the August 2007 shooting dead of 11-year-old Liverpool boy Rhys Jones asked police to move him to America, declaring “I want to live”, a court heard.

A gun allegedly used to kill English schoolboy Rhys Jones replicated the wounds inflicted in his shooting when fired in tests, a court heard today.

Detectives in England investigating the death of 11-year-old Rhys Jones said today that they had found a gun they believe was the murder weapon.