James Bulger was two-years-old when he was abducted from a Merseyside shopping centre on 12 February 1993. Two boys, both ...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were ten when they killed two-year-old James in 1993, were granted an unprecedented open- ended injunction barring any publicity about them. Dame Elizabeth ...

James Bulger's killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson have been granted their freedom by the Parole Board, Home Secretary David Blunkett has confirmed. The decision to release the two after ...

Jon Venables ... in 1993. He and Thompson were released in 2001 with new identities and granted lifetime anonymity. Venables was recalled to prison in 2010 for possession of child abuse images ...

Thirty-two years ago, a case of child murder took place that shocked Britain and triggered a huge debate, including in Ireland. Two boys abducted, tortured and then killed two-year-old James Bulger.

Two-year-old James was abducted in February 1993 from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson – both 10 at the time of the murder. His body was found two ...

The killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, led James two-and-a-half miles away before torturing and killing him. Mrs Fergus said she and the James Bulger Memorial Trust were launching the ...

They told Good Morning Britain Venables had "had his chances". Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both 10-years-old at the time of the crime, were convicted and each served 8 years in prison.

who are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of murder in Britain since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in 1993 of killing two-year-old James Bulger.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were truanting from school that day and had spent most of it hanging round the centre. An image of the boys caught on CCTV was released and became infamous with ...