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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3631201" data-attributes="member: 120286">Murder of James Bulger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia                                                                                                   James Bulger   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_bulger.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/James_bulger.jpg/225px-James_bulger.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> James Bulger    Born 16 March 1990(1990-03-16)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyside" target="_blank">Merseyside</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" target="_blank">England</a>   Died 12 February 1993 (aged 2)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton,_Merseyside" target="_blank">Walton</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" target="_blank">England</a>   Cause of death Murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson   James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was the victim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction" target="_blank">abduction</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>. His killers were two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. The murder took place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyside" target="_blank">Merseyside</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" target="_blank">England</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger#cite_note-gaurdian_bulger-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> The murder of a child by two other children caused public shock, outrage and grief, particularly around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyside" target="_blank">Merseyside</a>. James disappeared from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Strand_Shopping_Centre" target="_blank">New Strand Shopping Centre</a>, where he had been with his mother Denise, on 12 February 1993 and his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilated" target="_blank">mutilated</a> body was found on a railway line at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootle" target="_blank">Bootle</a> on 14 February. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, then 10, were charged with James's murder on 22 February and remanded in custody. On 24 November 1993, the two boys, by then 11, were found guilty of murder at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston" target="_blank">Preston</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Court" target="_blank">Crown Court</a>. The trial judge sentenced them to be detained <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Her_Majesty%27s_Pleasure" target="_blank">at Her Majesty's Pleasure</a>, with a recommendation that they should be kept in custody for "very, very many years to come". Shortly after the trial, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taylor,_Baron_Taylor_of_Gosforth" target="_blank">Lord Taylor of Gosforth</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" target="_blank">Lord Chief Justice</a>, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years, which would have made them eligible for release in February 2003 (they had been charged with James's murder on 22 February 1993), when they would be 20. The popular press felt the sentence was too lenient, and the editors of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_%28newspaper%29" target="_blank">The Sun</a> newspaper handed a petition bearing 300,000 signatures to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" target="_blank">Home Secretary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Howard" target="_blank">Michael Howard</a>, in a bid to increase the time spent by both boys in custody. This campaign was successful, and in 1995 Howard announced that the boys would be kept in custody for a minimum of 15 years, meaning that they would not be considered for release until February 2008, by which time they would be 25. In 1997, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_England_and_Wales" target="_blank">Court of Appeal</a> ruled that Howard's decision to set a 15-year <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_%28criminal_law%29" target="_blank">tariff</a> was unlawful, and the Home Secretary lost his power to set minimum terms for life-sentence prisoners under 18. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court" target="_blank">High Court</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" target="_blank">European Court of Human Rights</a> have ruled that politicians can no longer decide how long a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment" target="_blank">life sentence</a> prisoner can remain behind bars. Thompson and Venables were released on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_licence" target="_blank">life licence</a> in June 2001, after serving eight years, when a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole" target="_blank">parole</a> hearing concluded that public safety would not be threatened by their rehabilitation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger#cite_note-bbc_bulger_victims_danger-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction" target="_blank">injunction</a> was imposed after the trial preventing the publication of details about the boys, for fear of reprisals. The injunction remained in force following their release, so their new identities and locations could not be published.</blockquote>

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