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| Sean Mercer, seen here in his first photo since being jailed, has been chatting to a woman he met online using an illicit phone |
THE smirking killer of schoolboy Rhys Jones chatted up a woman he met online using an illicit phone hidden in his cell.
Sean Mercer seen grinning in a £120 Ralph Lauren jumper in his first photo since being jailed for life told her he is a model prisoner who deserves early release.
But his legal bid to get his sentence reduced will be hit by him breaking prison rules that can carry their own two-year jail term.
Stocky Mercer, now 29, began exchanging messages with the woman after liking a comment of hers on Instagram last August.
During their eight-month relationship, he wrote that he was in jail because he had “accidentally” hurt someone, and that he dreams of becoming a dad to “1, maybe 2 babies” when he is released.
A source said: “This kind of behaviour goes to the heart of what Mercer is like.
“On the one hand he’s trying to play the system by claiming he’s a reformed character so he can get out of prison earlier.
“On the other, rather than sticking to the rules, he’s openly using a mobile phone to have a relationship with a woman on the outside.
“Every contact is a criminal offence.
“Rather than pushing for early release, the authorities should be adding time to his sentence.”
Everton fan Rhys, 11, was shot dead as he walked home from football training across a pub car park in Liverpool in August 2007.
The killing by Mercer, then 16, was dramatised in ITV1’s Little Boy Blue, which aired again on Sunday.
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