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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3377740" data-attributes="member: 120286">The murderJon Venables and Robert Thompson were truanting from school on 12 February 1993. They were in their final year of primary school at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_St_Mary_Church_of_England_Primary_School" target="_blank">Walton St Mary Church of England Primary School</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger#cite_note-murderers_school-2" target="_blank">[3]</a>That day, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Strand_Shopping_Centre" target="_blank">New Strand Shopping Centre</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootle" target="_blank">Bootle</a>, they attempted to walk off with a young child. They had succeeded in luring a two-year-old boy from his mother, and were taking him out of the shopping centre when she noticed him missing, ran outside, and called him back. For this, the boys were charged with attempted abduction; the charge was dropped when the jury failed to reach a verdict.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bulger_cctv.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Bulger_cctv.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bulger_cctv.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>CCTV footage of James Bulger being kidnapped by Venables and Thompson (above Bulger), recorded on shopping centre CCTVThat afternoon, James Bulger (often mentioned as "Jamie Bulger" in press reports, he was never called "Jamie" by his family), from nearby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkby" target="_blank">Kirkby</a>, went with his mother Denise to a nearby shopping centre. While there, Mrs Bulger realised her son had disappeared. The two boys had taken him by the hand and led him out of the precinct. This moment was captured on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television" target="_blank">CCTV</a> camera at 15:39.The boys took Bulger on a 2½ mile (4 km) walk. They led him to a canal, where he sustained injuries to his head and face, after apparently being dropped to the ground. Later, a witness reported seeing Bulger being kicked in the ribs by one of the boys, to prod him along.During the walk, the boys were seen by 38 people.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>] Some reported there was bruising on Bulger's face, while others reported that he was laughing, the boys seemingly alternating between hurting and distracting him. A few members challenged the older boys, but they claimed they were looking after their younger brother, or that he was lost and they were taking him to the police station. They led Bulger to a railway line near the disused <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_%26_Anfield_railway_station" target="_blank">Walton & Anfield railway station</a> on Walton Lane.From facts at trial, at this location one of the boys threw blue modelling paint on Bulger's face. They kicked him and hit him with bricks, stones and a 22 lb (10 kg) iron bar. They then placed batteries in his mouth . False reports claiming the batteries were pushed up his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anus" target="_blank">anus</a> were spread by a chain letter<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger#cite_note-bulger_murder-3" target="_blank">[4]</a>. The letter also claimed that Bulger's fingers were cut off using scissors; this is also untrue. James suffered skull fractures as a result of the iron bar being struck around his head; this wound is believed to have caused his death.Before they left him, the boys laid Bulger across the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, in hopes that a train would hit him and make his death appear an accident. Two days later, on 14 February, Bulger was discovered; a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_pathologist" target="_blank">forensic pathologist</a> testified that he had died before his body was run over by a train.As the circumstances surrounding the death became clear, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid" target="_blank">tabloid</a> newspapers compared the killers with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Hindley" target="_blank">Myra Hindley</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Brady" target="_blank">Ian Brady</a> who had committed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_Murders" target="_blank">Moors Murders</a> during the 1960s. They denounced the people who had seen Bulger but not realised the trouble he was in as the "Liverpool 38" (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese" target="_blank">Kitty Genovese</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect" target="_blank">bystander effect</a>). The railway embankment upon which his body had been discovered was flooded with hundreds of bunches of flowers: one of these floral tributes, a single rose, was laid by Thompson. Within days, he and Venables were arrested, after an investigation led by Detective Superintendent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Kirby&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Albert Kirby</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyside_Police" target="_blank">Merseyside Police</a>.Forensics tests confirmed that both boys had the same blue paint on their clothing as on Bulger's body. Both had blood on their shoes; blood on Thompson's shoe was matched to Bulger through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA" target="_blank">DNA</a> tests.The boys were charged with Bulger's murder on 22 February 1993. They were the youngest people charged with murder in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales" target="_blank">England and Wales</a> during the 20th century.</blockquote>

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