I Let Him Go: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger- updated for the 30th anniversary, in memory of James: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger

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Uncropped Mothercare CCTV still of the abduction, showing the timestamp at 15:42:32". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. One has to wonder why the rights of the horrifically tortured victim, James Bulger, were and are considered of less importance than the rights of two people who, when they were mere children, consciously and deliberately chose to do evil when they abducted James on that fateful day with the intent to kill. And

It does not seem to have been much of a plan, and in this context, it is hard to accept that they knew they were going to kill a child. One of the two boys must have first introduced the idea that led to taking James… “Let’s get a kid…let’s get a kid lost…”. It probably did not go much further than that to begin with. … A proper, artfully conceived plan would not have involved so much casual idling, messing around and wandering in and out of shops, nor offered so many opportunities to be caught in their encounters with adults. Jon Venables: Woman who posted picture said to show killer avoids jail". BBC News. 24 January 2020. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020 . Retrieved 19 February 2020. November 1993: The jury find Robert Thompson and Jon Venables guilty of the abduction and murder of James Bulger a b "New sentencing rules: Key cases". BBC. 7 May 2003. Archived from the original on 30 July 2004 . Retrieved 11 March 2010.

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Hough, Andrew (10 March 2010). "Jon Venables: man wrongly accused of being James Bulger killer 'living in fear of vigilantes' ". Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 March 2010 . Retrieved 11 March 2010. I shouldn’t have let go of his hand,” she says in the film. “It’s hard for me to say, but it’s the truth.”

CCTV: Does it work?". BBC. 13 August 2002. Archived from the original on 31 July 2010 . Retrieved 15 April 2023. Thompson and Venables took Bulger to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, around 1⁄ 4 mile (400 metres) from the New Strand Shopping Centre, where they dropped him on his head, and he suffered injuries to his face. The boys joked about pushing Bulger into the canal. [9] [17] An eyewitness said that when he saw Bulger at the canal, the boy was "crying his eyes out". [18] The boys went on a 2 + 1⁄ 2-mile (4-kilometre) walk across Liverpool; they were seen by around 38 people, but most bystanders did nothing to intervene. [18] [19] Two people challenged Thompson and Venables, but they either claimed that Bulger was their brother, or that he was lost, and that they were taking him to a police station. [20] At one point, the boys took Bulger into a pet shop, from which they were ejected. [21] This story is heartbreaking and I feel the bulger family had no voice in this book I pray that what is now 30 years since their beautiful baby was taken they have some sense of peace. Which would be hard to get knowing that the state has provided nothing but opportunities money and resources at Robert Thompson and Jon venables their life’s after the murder of James got better they were provided with new names and spent only eight years in what can only be described as orphanage not one day spent in jail for the murder of James bulger. Towards the end of this book the author tries to fathom intent. Surely this is the heart of the matter. When they lured James away what was their intention? Smith says :This book was first published in 1994 and was updated in 2011. Two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, had killed two-year-old, James Bulger, in February 1993. It was the most horrific and evil killing. It is immediately obvious, from the Preface, that the author is looking at why the two boys did what they did. What would make two 10-year-old boys do something like this? There must be a reason other than being just pure evil. This is not sensationalist tabloid fodder. He says ‘…Venables had seemed to me to be the more disturbed of the pair’. The teachers said that Robert was ‘…the dominant one in the friendship, and though he was quiet and seldom a problem in class…’ They carried on to say that he ‘was cunning and a liar’.