The toddler was abducted from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on February 12, 1993 by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Here is who their parents are and how they reacted ...

On February 12, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both aged 10, snatched the innocent two-year-old from outside a butcher's shop in Bootle, Merseyside. After abducting James, the pair led the ...

No, they did it for fun. The perpetrators — Robert Thompson and Jon Venables — were also both ten years old at the time. A case like Bulger’s scrambles the usual principles of criminal law.

It was a crime that rocked Liverpool to its core, leaving parents petrified for the safety of their children - then baying for the blood of two 10-year-old boys. James Bulger was murdered more ...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were just ten-years-old when they murdered two-year-old James Bulger. The horrific crime shocked the nation when the tot was abducted, tortured and murdered ...

The savage murder of James Bulger in 1993 by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson was a crime that horrified the nation and left the two-year-old's family utterly broken. In February 1993, the toddler ...

And as he did so, the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy widened. Jon Venables, and his partner in crime Robert Thompson, in an adult court dock that had to be specially modified so they could see ...

James Bulger was lured from a Liverpool shopping mall by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Just recently it emerged the other killer, Venables, is engaged and plans to marry when he leaves prison.

Jamie Bolger walked away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 and a ...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson are protected by a life-long anonymity order (Picture: Getty) James Bulger killer Jon Venables is said to have a ‘price on his head’ after fellow inmates ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Who are Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two youths who at the age of 10 brutally killed toddler James Bulger? And what can be said of two-year-old James, whose life ...

James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus has spoken of her regret over his murder nearly 25 years ago by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in Liverpool Venables, who was sent back to jail last month for ...