Case overview
On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993). When questioned, Thompson and Venables claimed that Bulger was either their brother or a lost child they were taking to a police station. [1]
Thompson and Venables were found guilty of abduction and murder on 24 November, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history. The boys were each charged with the murder of James Bulger on 20 February 1993, and they appeared at South Sefton Youth Court on 22 February 1993, where they were remanded in custody to await trial. The police investigation quickly yielded low-resolution CCTV images showing two unidentified boys abducting Bulger from the New Strand Shopping Centre. [2]
