Finally, the boys dropped a 10-kilogram (22 lb) railway fishplate on Bulger. They placed batteries in Bulger's mouth and, according to police, may have inserted some into his anus, although none were found there.
They kicked him, stamped on him, and threw bricks and stones at him. One of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint, which they had shoplifted earlier, into Bulger's left eye. James Bulger being abducted by Thompson (above Bulger) and Venables (holding Bulger's hand) in an image recorded on shopping centre CCTV With Walton Lane Police Station facing them across the road, they hesitated and led Bulger up a steep bank to a railway line near the disused Walton & Anfield railway station, close to Anfield Cemetery. Įventually, the boys arrived in the village of Walton. At one point, the boys took Bulger into a pet shop, from which they were ejected. Two people challenged Thompson and Venables, but they either claimed that Bulger was their brother or that he was lost and they were taking him to a police station. An eyewitness said that when he saw Bulger at the canal, the boy was "crying his eyes out." The boys went on a 2.5-mile (4 km) walk across Liverpool they were seen by around 38 people, but most bystanders did nothing to intervene. The boys joked about pushing Bulger into the canal. Thompson and Venables took Bulger to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, around a quarter of a mile from the New Strand Shopping Centre, where they dropped him on his head and he suffered injuries to his face.
Thompson and Venables had approached James Bulger, took him by the hand and led him out of the shopping centre. Tym's butcher's shop on the lower floor of the centre at around 15:40, Denise, who had let go of James' hand whilst paying for her shopping, realised that her son was missing. That same afternoon, Bulger, from nearby Kirkby, went with his mother, Denise, to the New Strand Shopping Centre. One of the boys later revealed that they were planning to abduct a child, lead him to the busy road alongside the shopping centre, and push him into the oncoming traffic. Throughout the day, Thompson and Venables were seen stealing various items including sweets, batteries, a troll doll and a can of blue paint. The boys were playing truant from school, which they did regularly.
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The Bulger case has prompted widespread debate about how to handle young offenders when they are sentenced or released from custody. In November 2017, Venables was again sent to prison for possessing child abuse images on his computer. In 2010, Venables was sent to prison for breaching the terms of his licence, and was released on parole again in 2013. They were sentenced to detention at Her Majesty's pleasure, and remained in custody until a Parole Board decision in June 2001 recommended their release on a lifelong licence aged 18. They were found guilty on 24 November, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with abduction and murder. His mutilated body was found on a railway line 2.5 miles (4 km) away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his abduction. Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle as his mother had taken her eyes off him momentarily. James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a two-year-old boy from Kirkby, Merseyside, England, who was abducted, tortured, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, on 12 February 1993.