‘Someone we knew and liked very much has died’

A NINE-YEAR-OLD friend of Rhys Jones spoke movingly yesterday of his shock and pain at the death of his friend.

Lewis Ainscough, dressed in his Liverpool football kit, said: “Heavenly Father, we are sad this afternoon because someone we knew well and liked very much has died.

“We don’t often think about people dying, especially when they are very young, so this has been a great shock to us.