'I thought Scousers stuck together... I'm disappointed in city'

MUM OF MURDERED 22-YEAR-OLD SAYS POSTERS APPEALING FOR INFORMATION OVER HIS KILLING HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN

- By WESLEY HOLMES

SAM Rimmer's mum says she is “disappointed with her city” after posters appealing for information about her son’s murder were cruelly vandalised.

It has been more than three years since 22-year-old Sam was gunned down in a Dingle street on August 16 2022.

To this day, his killers remain shrouded in mystery.

Sam, who was expecting his first child at the time of his death, was with a group of friends on Lavrock Bank when he was hit by one of eight bullets fired from a Skorpion submachine gun.

Four suspects on two electric bikes drove into the cul-de-sac, and one of them opened fire on the group fatally injuring Sam.

Ten people were arrested in connection with the shooting and remain under investigation, but no one has been charged with the murder.

Speaking on the third anniversary of the murder, Sam's mum Joanne Rimmer said: "People say to cherish the memories, but when I think of Sam, the memory I have is of his body in the morgue, staring at his chest, willing him to breathe.

"No parent should ever have to identify their child’s body.

"Unless you have experienced the murder of your child, you cannot begin to understand the agonising, torturous mental and emotional horror we endure daily. The ache of my heart just to see my son again.”