ENGLAND • James BULGER - 2 yo (1993) / Convicted: Jon Venables and Robert Thompson - Liverpool

James Bulger March 16, 1990 – February 12, 1993

On Feb. 12, 1993, in Liverpool, England, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables murdered 2 year old James Bulger after kidnapping the toddler from a butcher's shop in a shopping center with his mother, Denise who was momentarily distracted as she conducted business.

Two ten year old boys skipping school took the young child on a 2½ mile walk culminating at the railroad tracks. At a canal, on the way, he sustained head and face injuries from being dropped to the ground.

They were seen by at least 38 people, some noticed head injuries on the little boy.

It was reported that he seemed upset and distressed, yet other's reported he was also seen laughing happily.

Once they reached the tracks, blue paint was thrown in James's face, they kicked him, battered him with bricks, stones, and a 22 lb iron bar; shoved batteries in his mouth; and sexually assaulted him before covering his lifeless body with bricks and stones on train tracks. A train severed his body. The boys went home afterwards to watch cartoons.

Several days later, James's mangled body in two pieces was discovered on a rail embankment. At the place his body was found, James was honored with floral tributes, including one from Thompson.

Both boys were arrested promptly based on security camera footage, witnesses, DNA and other forensics tests. Due to their age their identities were to be kept confidential however Information in this high profile and shocking crime distributed over the Internet and through the media soon made these identities public. The defendant's families were given new identities and relocated to undisclosed regions of the country after the mothers, Susan Venables and Ann Thompson, reported being attacked in the street, receiving repeated threats, and negative media coverage heavily placing the blame on the parents of these young defendants Thompson, who was very short for his age, was described as quiet yet friendly. When he was five, his drunken father who beat and sexually abused his wife and children abandoned family. The following week their home burned down. His mother a heavy drinker, who had attempted suicide, could not control her seven aggressive, violent sons who bit, hammered, battered, tortured, and threatened to knife each other. When one of the boys was returned home from foster care he attempted suicide by overdose. Robert was the least able to defend himself from his siblings.

One of his first lawyers to interview him said: "He was a strange and lost little figure, who could be quite cool and tough. But he is no psychopath and he never showed violence or even bad temper either before or since the murder."

His father has not contacted him since his arrest.

He displayed no sadness or regrets during the trial. He failed to admit to any responsibility for James' murder, despite the blood evidence and Venables' confession. He glared at the press during the trial.

His mother sobered up, moved near where he was housed and visited him with four of her children daily. He earned 5 GCSEs in 1999 and reached A-levels in design and technology. Amanda Miller, a volunteer with the offender's family support group, said: "He seems remarkably well adjusted given the circumstances ... I mean, I'm amazed he doesn't cower in the corner."

In 1999 he admitted to his guilt.

Emotionally immature, Venables was hyperactive child who fought at school but after his parents separated, he spent two days a week at his father's (Neil) house nearby. He became a loner with attention-seeking tendencies. He banged his head on walls and cut himself with scissors at school. He received no help for these behaviors. His mother, Susan, suffered from psychiatric conditions including severe depressive problem. His brother and sister attended special needs for major learning disabilities.

Appearing younger and more naive than Thompson. Venables claimed Thompson bullied him but that it was Venables idea to approach James, though it was Thompson's idea to kill Bulger.

With his mother present at the time of his arrest, police and psychiatric interviews revealed a confused and frightened child fully aware of the seriousness of his legal problems.

According to an officer he confessed to his parents in his presence: "He ended up sort of curled up on Sue's lap and he was crying and crying and they said
over and over that they loved him and would always love him and then, really very quickly, he said: 'I did kill him.'"

Daily during the three-week murder trial, vulnerable and shaken Jon Venables cried.

He broke down and sobbed when the verdict was read. His father Neil Venables shook and wept as his as his body jerked and folded. John's mother sat erect, stiff, still, showing no emotion, eyes fixed in a trance like state.

The court would not allow testimony or evidence detailing their dysfunctional young lives. The defendants did not present a defense. They were found guilty and sentenced to an institution for young offenders.

Even though no evidence was presented that the boys watched violent movies, the judge explained that one father had a number of violent videos,most likely accessible to the boys when they skipped school. Bulger's death was similar to the death in Child's Play 3; a video his father rented the week prior the murder.
Timeline of Events

Photo Essay: The Loss of a Child -- TIME

The judge called it "unparalleled evil and barbarity" and gave them an indefinite sentence.

Venables and Thompson did not want to be released out of fear for their safety.

One broke down in tears before his Parole Board hearing. June 22 2001, after serving 8 years, 4 months and 10 days in a secure facility, Thompson and Venables both 18, were paroled on a life licence -- immediate incarceration if they break any terms of their release, or seen as a danger to the public.

A full transcript of David Blunkett's answer to the release of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

They they were legally and confidentiality provided with false identities to rebuild their lives at a cost of £4 million in government money. By law, an anonymity ruling protects Venables and Thompson from the press in England and Wales - not Scotland, the foreign press or much of the internet.

In 2004, Denise, James's mother, received a tip on Thompson's whereabouts. She saw him but did not make contact.

As of March 2006 Robert Thompson was living with a male lover.

New Zealand headlines suggested that New Zealand might be asked to 'host' the murderers, and because of the threats of revenge by vigilantes.

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http://karisable.com/mbulg.htm

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

James Bulger murderer Jon Venables returned to prison

James Bulger was murdered in Liverpool in 1993

One of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger is back in prison after breaching the terms of his release, the Ministry of Justice has said.

Jon Venables, now 27, and his friend, Robert Thompson, murdered James in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993. Both killers were aged just 10 at the time. They were given life sentences, but released in 2001 with new identities and under certain licence conditions. The ministry did not detail the nature of Venables' breach of his licence. Mother's 'anxiety'It said in a statement: "We can confirm that Jon Venables has been recalled to custody following a breach of licence conditions. "Offenders on licence are subject to strict conditions; if they breach those conditions they are subject to immediate recall." Venables' solicitor at the time of his trial, Laurence Lee, told the BBC: "He could have been recalled on licence if he committed an offence, it could be that he returned to Merseyside, it could be he might have approached the family.

Venables was released from custody in 2001 and given a new identity

here is no evidence so far that he did any of these things." Retired Det Supt Albert Kirby, who led the murder inquiry, said he was surprised Venables was back behind bars. He added: "I've always thought, with regards to that particular boy, that from what we've heard over the years there was every possibility he would have avoided going back into prison." A relative of Denise Fergus, James's mother, said the family had no plans to comment on Venables' return to prison at this time. But Mr Kirby told BBC News he had spoken to James's mother and the news had brought "a whole load of anxiety" back to her. He said: "There's always been a lot of anxiety as to where both boys are.

"To hear something like that this evening; it brings back to her a lot of the concerns, quite understandably, that she and any other parents in these sorts of circumstances would have."

'Unparalleled barbarity' On 13 February 1993, Venables and Thompson abducted James from a shopping centre in Bootle and killed him on a railway line. A week-long appeal followed, with CCTV footage being released of the little boy holding the hand of one of his killers as he was led out of the Strand shopping centre.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8546528.stm

Jon Venables guard got ‘too close’ to child inmate

6/05/2011


Jon Venables

A GUARD at killer Jon Venables’ secure children’s unit was ­disciplined for getting “too close” to an inmate.

The carpeting of the unnamed staff member came while Venables was at Red Bank in St Helens, Merseyside, in 1998 – two years before the killer, now 28, had sex with a woman carer there.

It is not known if Venables, then 15, was the “child” involved. Papers relating to the 1998 incident, revealed under freedom of information laws, have since been destroyed in accordance with local council policy.

The latest revelations will add fuel to demands for a public inquiry by Denise Fergus, whose two-year-old son James Bulger was tortured and killed by Venables and his accomplice Robert Thompson in 1993.

She wants answers amid claims of an official cover-up after it was revealed Venables had sex with a female carer in an empty building at the unit in 2000 – shortly before he was granted parole.

She never been prosecuted and officials refuse to comment.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/06/jon-venables-guard-got-too-close-to-child-inmate-115875-23109774/#ixzz1MOm3hzjd

Don't free Venables.. he will kill a child again
Bulger dad fury at parole bid

Living in fear... Ralph believes Venables may attack his children
Billy Griffiths
Exclusive by Rosie Dunn & Lucy Panton, crime editor

May 15, 2011


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THE father of murdered toddler James Bulger believes Jon Venables will target his OTHER CHILDREN if he is let out of jail.

Ralph Bulger has revealed his terrifying fears in an impassioned plea to parole chiefs to keep the killer banged up for life.

"They will have blood on their hands if they free him again," says Ralph - who has six children between three and 16 - in a gripping exclusive News of the world interview.

"Venables is a violent sexual predator, from a boy to a man.

"From the very beginning I have always maintained the murder of my son was sexually motivated - but because it was done by two ten-year-old boys no-one wanted to believe it.

"It is only a matter of time before he explodes and murders another child.

"And I truly believe that the ultimate sexual thrill for him would be to abuse and kill another one of my children."

This POS needs to be incarcerated for the rest of his life.

The US is not the only country with evil, perverted monsters.

The US justice system is not the only flawed system.

Put this animal in a cage and keep him there. Protect the children of the UK.

If this should be in the other international news thread please feel free to move it. I didn't get the memo so I don't know the difference.

twinkletoes wrote:If this should be in the other international news thread please feel free to move it. I didn't get the memo so I don't know the difference.

---No, you did fine Toesie. This is the new updated section. The other will be deleted as soon as all topics are moved over here.