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UK cops round up more suspects
31/08/2007 21:09 - (SA)
London - Four people were arrested on Friday in connection with the killing of an 11-year-old boy in Liverpool, police said.
Police also urged a witness who had called a police "hot line" a week ago with information about the shooting to identify himself and come forward to be interviewed by authorities.
Rhys Jones, 11, was shot in the neck on August 22 as he returned home from playing soccer in Liverpool, northwest England, and police believe he may have been the unintended victim of gang warfare.
The case restarted a long-standing debate in the UK about efforts to control gang violence and stop the killing of teenagers on the streets of Britain, and about whether the country's already strict gun-control laws should be tightened.
Two men, aged 20 and 24, and two boys, aged 17 and 16, all from the Liverpool area, were detained by police on Friday for questioning.
The arrests raised to 15 the number of people who have been taken into custody in the case. The other 11, most of them teens, have been questioned and released on bail or freed without charge, police said.
In an unrelated development, the body of a 17-year-old boy who had been stabbed to death was found early on Friday in east London, police said. They said two 16-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the death, but that it was not believed to be gang related.
- AP
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