‘It’s a mystery how Yates got out of prison,’ says Mel. Having grown up playing backyard cricket and taking up the sport in school, Mel went on to play in the Australian women’s cricket team, winning two World Cups, two Ashes series and numerous world series. Sorting out all the things he loved was really emotional and we ended up keeping more than we binned because I couldn’t bear the thought of chucking it away. The couple became overnight celebrities – for want of a better word – but as parents of a murdered child who only ever wanted quiet, ordinary lives, that was very hard to bear.Owen once had to usher Mel out of a shopping centre because so many people came up to hug her that she broke down.
He got comfort from watching Rhys joking and running around, but I couldn’t do that. I knew he needed that space because if he didn’t get it we really would have ended up getting divorced. What an exceptional experience — you can’t help but feel special driving a Vantage.” Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. ‘I can handle it a bit better now, but it’s still the same. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, she played 5 Test matches for Australia between 1998 and 2003, scoring 251 runs, highlighted by a 131 on debut against England in August 1998. But, it was also important to us that our narrator be extremely familiar with media, commentary and voice-over work. Sam Craig Senior Associate. ‘I can understand that you want to protect your kids, but these boys hadn’t nicked a packet of sweets. I felt everything I did was wrong.’ Mel says it was a surprise but, ‘I understood. It is lightning fast in its reflexes, there is no lag time whatsoever.“It just feels so powerful, like it just wants to be given the freedom to cut loose. In November 2014 I had the pleasure of working with Mel Jones on an audio tour that my history consultancy, Way Back When, was commissioned to research, write and produce for the National Sports Museum. I felt like wearing a badge saying, “I’m having a good day today, please don’t make me cry!”’Steve still works for Tesco, as a night manager.
The tour, which is just under 18 minutes in duration, takes visitors on a journey through the Museum via the theme of Australian sporting culture. A nice lady came to give us a valuation, and she obviously knew who we were. We have found at least 200 people in the UK with the name Melanie Jones.
I wanted to go back but if I had done that I knew it would be exactly the same: I’d have wanted to leave again.’They kept in touch, visiting Rhys’s grave together every Sunday and having the odd chat when Steve came to pick up Owen for a football match. Mel's professionalism and positive outlook made the entire production process highly enjoyable. Gerry Whale Partner. ‘They did their best to give them alibis and destroy evidence. ‘Do whatever you like.’ Ste packed his stuff and left; it was only after the door closed that I broke down.
Her career started taking flight when she was well received at the Spier … The 40-year-old food writer and TV presenter introduced viewers to her tattooed hubby Joe Jones, a trained chef and bartender who owns Melbourne cocktail bar, Romeo Lane. Rhys has been shot.’She found Rhys lying in a pool of blood in the car park of the nearby Fir Tree pub. ‘No other person will ever be able to understand me the way Ste does because he’s been through it all with me.’They have learnt to laugh again, to take pleasure in life and focus on the happy years they had with Rhys rather than the future they have lost. The Vantage in turn has played a huge part in revitalising the pukka British brand in the past few years.To test the Hammerhead Silver Vantage, Jones takes to the quaint village roads around Aston’s HQ in Gaydon in Warwickshire, England.Gaydon, at last census count with a population of a tick under 500, is home to the British Motor Museum, with the world’s largest collection of historic British cars.The hype says the Vantage has an athletic, predatory stance, with muscular flanks and broad haunches expressing the agility and dynamism inherit within the car.Just like her calling between wickets playing for the Southern Stars, Jones is more succinct: “It has the get-up-and-go to match its stunning looks.
Her changing look isn’t to do with vanity. Though she and Steve had been together for more than 20 years and regarded their relationship as rock solid when Rhys was killed, the tragedy tested them to the limit. Talented, knowledgable, skillful and a great personality put her in the top bracket!In November 2014 I had the pleasure of working with Mel Jones on an audio tour that my history consultancy, Way Back When, was commissioned to research, write and produce for the National Sports Museum. Now her hair is shoulder-length and grey.
‘I’m still amazed to be sitting here,’ she says.