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Today’s true crime case takes us to the afternoon of the Friday 12th February 1993 when 2 year old James Bulger was out shopping with his mother Denise in the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, a town in the North West of England. Just before 3.40pm Denise went into a butchers shop and, whilst paying for some items, she let go of her son’s hand briefly. This decision would haunt her for the rest of her life as within approximately 4 minutes James had wondered outside on his own approached and was led away from the shopping centre by two 10 year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson who then walked with James for 2.5 miles before murdering him. This case has continued to caused anger in the 30 years since James’ murder not only because of his horrific death but also because of the short sentence that both murderers served, the fact they were given new lives and new identifies and that one of them, Jon Venables, has been convicted of a number of offences since his release including twice for possessing sexual abuse images of children. However, he has been able to maintain his anonymity throughout all this. Chapters: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:56 Intro 00:05:13 Jon Venables 00:09:55 Robert Thompson 00:13:18 Jon Venables and Robert Thompson together 00:15:04 The abduction of James Bulger 00:24:44 James Bulger’s last walk 00:31:17 The murder of James Bulger 00:34:18 Investigation 00:46:33 Legal proceedings 00:52:05 What happened next? 01:03:42 Those left behind 01:11:24 Jon Venables and Robert Thompson: Profiles 01:20:09 End Credit: Intro music by Eric Matyas: http://soundimage.org/dark-ominous/ James Bulger Memorial Trust: https://forjames.org/ Please like, share, subscribe and comment.
