what they did was worse than any film, they did more nasty things. i got this 3rd hand it was edited in the press, beacuse if people really knew they would well kill the entire family that bred the monsters. i live 14 miles from where it happened, my mum drive past the spot almost every day.
the film is to blame angle, is just an excuse, a well the film (devil) made me do it. these were bad kids, who lived in a very bad area. so is the bringing back to life.
you have to realise the parents and lawyers of these monsters were all looking for a scapegoat for their kids actions, like they are not old enough to know right from wrong. every serial killer every murderer uses similar excuses, bundy blamed porn for making him kill. tv made this person kill. if that was true how come in the past there was far more violence. where thousands of people were killed, they probably said books were to blame.
now i was in 2 minds over the sentencing, 1 the home secretary broke the rules by increasing the prison term, which set a precedent that he could keep anyone in prison for as long as he wished without parole. Now that was wrong. he did it for the right reasons but he was still wrong. those kids should have been locked up for life, and i mean life. or even executed, i dont normally agree with the death penalty, but for some of the most heinous crimes with absolute proof they did it. then i al all for it.
and to go with not getting involved "one of the so-called 'Liverpool 38' who saw James but did nothing, half a dozen of whom I'm told are still daily damaged by the knowledge "
in 2003 "the time of James's murder, unemployment in Liverpool was 15.2 per cent, 4.4 points above the national average. Today it's at 11.1 per cent, but that's still 5.8 per cent above the average"
" Remember the circumstances. Thompson, with evidence of family abuse, and a loathed younger brother whom he had taken to the canal, and threatened, two weeks earlier. "
in 2001
"Robert Thompson was known as Child A throughout the three-week murder trial at Preston crown court, and many of those close to the case believe him to have been the prime mover in the killing of James Bulger.
During the trial he became known as "the one that did not cry", and he returned the questioning stares of the press bench unblinkingly. For years he failed to accept any responsibilty for Bulger's death, despite the blood found on his shoes and the confession of Jon Venables.
Detectives who interviewed him following his arrest described him as canny, intelligent and frightening. They were unnerved by his failure to react like a confused child, and some came to hate him, regarding him with a contempt usually reserved for sex criminals and adult child killers"
even the police were scared
"Thompson's brutal father walked out when he was six and has not made contact with him since his arrest in 1993. His mother Anne, violently alcoholic at the time of her son's arrest, sobered up and moved to within walking distance of the secure unit in which he has been housed since he was sentenced. Along with her three younger sons, and her eldest who lives at home, she visited Robert every day after his classes finished at 3pm"
"Jon Venables wept every day of his three-week murder trial, a quivering, vulnerable contrast to the boy he sat beside. When the verdict was passed he broke down, and said as he was led away: "The little boy, will you tell his mum I'm sorry."
Emotionally immature, with two siblings with learning disabilities, he appeared younger than Thompson, and was certainly the more impressionable of the two. It had been his idea, however, to approach James Bulger in the Strand shopping centre"
At the time of the murder his father Neil lived away from the family and Jon would visit him to watch videos. One of these, Child's Play 3, was mentioned in court as a trigger for the crime, a theory derided as nonsense by one investigating officer.
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