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On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 [2] – 12 February 1993). [3] [4] Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, where Bulger was visiting shops with ...
Venables and Thompson claimed that the Home Secretary had unlawfully decided not to release them from prison, after they were convicted of murder as children. The Home Secretary took into account public petitions demanding the murderer be imprisoned for life. He refused to take account of their progress and development during detention.
Venables was jailed alongside accomplice Robert Thompson on 24 November 1993, in one of the most notorious crimes in British history. Both boys, aged 11 at the time, were released under new ...
Thompson and Venables abducted two-year-old James Bulger from a shopping center in Bootle. They tortured Bulger before laying him across railway tracks, where he was hit by a train. They both spent eight years in a young offenders' institution. In 2017, Venables was re-incarcerated for possessing child sexual abuse material. Jon Venables
Child killer Jon Venables has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail. The 41-year-old, who tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, still poses a danger to children and ...
Listen to the moment Jon Venables admits to killing two-year-old James Bulger in a newly released recording from 1993. “I killed James, I did it”, 10-year-old Venables tells police during an ...
February 12, 1993: Two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted and murdered toddler James Bulger in Liverpool, England. After skipping school together, Thompson and Venables engaged in a spree of petty criminal activity including shoplifting and vandalism at a local shopping mall before spotting Bulger alone and deciding ...
The Parole Board said 41-year-old Venables still posed a danger to children and could go on to offend again. James Bulger’s parents ‘relieved’ killer Jon Venables refused prison release Skip ...