Viewers are set to be hit hard by Little Boy Blue for a second time as ITV repeat the harrowing drama this week.
Based on a true story that shocked a nation, the powerful four-part factual drama, which will air over four nights from Sunday, May 24, 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.
First shown in 2017, Little Boy Blue was made by award-winning director Jeff Pope, the man responsible for lockdown drama Isolation Stories and with the support of Rhys’ parents, Melanie and Steve.
According to ITV : "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’ murderer and his associates to justice.."
It will air on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on ITV.
