A surveillance camera shows the abduction of two-year-old James
Bulger from the Bootle
Strand shopping mall February 12 1993 at
3:42pm near Liverpool, England. Bulger holds
the hand of Jon
Venables, one of two ten-year-old boys later convicted of his
torture and murder.
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Abducted: CCTV footage shows Robert Thomson and Jon Venables,
both 10, leading James Bulger, two,
from a shopping centre in Liverpool in 1993.
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Suspects
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Crime scene
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Jon Venables
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Jon Venables
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Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
The victim
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James Bulger
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James Bulger
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James Bulger with his mother Denise during a family holiday.
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James Bulger with his father Ralph
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James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus with a picture of the two-year-old.
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Denise with her then husband, Ralph Bulger, at a press conference
in the wake
of the murder of their toddler son James.
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The heartbreakingly tiny coffin at the toddler's funeral.
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