Liverpool shop havens inspired by Jimmy Mizen scheme

Barry Mizen will open the first 'safe haven' outside London in Liverpool

Liverpool has become the first city outside of London to set up "safe havens" in local shops to help people who feel threatened by violence.

Some businesses as well as community centres will allow victims to take shelter there.

Staff will lock their premises, and call a victim's family or the police.

The scheme will be launched by Barry Mizen, whose son Jimmy, 16, was murdered during an attack in a bakery three years ago.

The London scheme was set up in memory of Jimmy Mizen.

The teenager's father will launch the project in north Liverpool and announce more details at Goodison Park, the home of Everton FC.

Jimmy Mizen was killed in May 2008 in the Three Cooks Bakery in Lee, South East London.

Jake Fahri, 19, from Lee, was sentenced to life in prison in March 2009 of Jimmy's murder and told he would serve at least 14 years.