Occasionally, when the children would be left sitting on the red wall outside the house too long, one of the neighbours would call the police to go and get her out of the Top House. I am not sure if in fact he was seen by the school psychologist, but I did complete a form for him.. Their kids have got everything. I'm warning yer,' she would say. On Monday night's documentary, Robert Thompson's solicitor Dominic Lloyd said: "Many years after the trial a juror said 'we found them guilty of murder but we didn't have the option to find them guilty of being two very bewildered and frightened little boys who made an awful mistake and need a lot of help'.". One day they stayed out until 10.30pm and Jon received a severe reprimand from his mother. Only two people can answer the question, and even their ability is doubtful. ', Mrs Thompson had no illusions about her son: 'He's a little liar, he's devious, he's a scally, he robs, he plays truant.' "I think about little James and what he must have gone through, how they must feel. A day later, when James still hadnt been found, it was clear from CCTV footage that he had been taken by children. The couple, who are living together again after a partial separation, said their feelings towards Jon had not changed despite the terrible crime. The couples first child, a son, had been born with a cleft pallet, and when Jon was born, much of the Venables focus was on getting their eldest son into speech therapy. Both were banned from ever returning to Liverpool and given new identities at a reported cost of 1.5million. When she turned around moments later, her son was gone. All information on this page is true to my knowledge, and is not intended to diminish or justify either boys actions in any way whatsoever. They went on family outings together, slept together, and when Susan did find a place, virtually coexisted between the two homes. When you have got people in the area threatening to blow your kneecaps off every moment of the daythats just the way they are. David James Smith, who wrote a book about the Bulger case, The Sleep Of Reason, and stayed in touch with Ann Thompson afterwards. The press were gobbling it up. The two bumped into each other - literally - in the school playground in the middle of a fight. Neil had been laid off in the months prior, so the couple sold their home, and Neil moved back in with his father, before finally relocating to an apartment in Kirkdale. One time they sagged off with Robert's younger brother, which went disastrously wrong. Most people would regard such sentiments as having come rather late in the day and certainly too late to save poor James. Not really?. It is just heartbreaking.". . Just four years earlier, we had all covered the Hillsborough disaster and come together in grief. She claimed, however, that she was completely unaware of Jons erratic behaviors at school, had never seen any evidence to support them (such as cuts on his arms or holes in his socks), and dismissed the possibility that many of the occurrences cited by the teacher had ever taken place. As his killers began their sentences, such was the revulsion that it was already clear their families could not. I came back and then (Mrs Venables) went out. . NEIL Venables was warned by friends not to let his son play with the other boy. Venables received a 40-month prison sentence after appearing via video link at the Old Bailey. Like Ann Thompson, however, both parents of Jon Venables rallied round their son and in preparationfor his release Mr Venables accom-panied him on trips to football matches. CCTV images revealed how James had been lured away by Thompson and Venables, who was also aged 10. The other boy, Robert Thompson, we are told is now abiding by the conditions of his life license since he was released 17 years ago, and is doing well. I couldnt make any sense of it, Robert later recalled, desolately, when asked about his fathers unexpected departure. Meanwhile Robert Thompson always regarded as the ringleader and the most likely of the murderous duo to fall by the wayside is said to be doing well. Their seats were just below the raised dock where their sons would sit for the next three weeks, listening to a prosecution which aimed to prove not only that they killed James Bulger, but that they planned to, and that when they did they knew it to be wrong. Unemployment levels were more than twice the national average in Walton. Natural Landmarks. I wish we could turn the clocks back," Mrs Venablessaid. He began telling his father that he believed his parents loved his brother and sister more than they did him, and, at one point, implored his father to send him to school with his siblings. She acknowledged her son had committed a terrible crime but claimed that her innocent younger children were being denied a proper education because of having to abandon their homes to escape attacks. He believes these were evil boys. wo. IN their interviews with the two boys, psychiatrists could find no clues to why the boys acted so violently. Directly in front of the bench was the raised dock in which Thompson, Venables, and two social workers would sit for the next four weeks. They deal with drugs, they deal with everything. Real bottom of the gut stuff, like an animal. His mother was not so keen on the idea - they cost pounds 35 each. He disliked Thunderbirds because of the puppets' 'stringy thingies'. Both boys had been held back a year, and they were put in the same class. Once they went into a home decoration shop and hid under a pile of carpets. Yes, these things are important, but trust. TWO BOYS. It was high- lighted by the trial judge Mr Justice Morland who said they must take moral responsibility for the terrible actions of the young killers. She was prone to hysteria and hailed from a 'strict and disciplined' background. Last week the author Angela Phillips spoke of how the gentle son of the female friend of hers turned into a fascist skinhead: 'The boy his mother wanted him to become was not man enough for the world he was forced to inhabit. Mrs Venables said: 'I think it was because the class group was too big for them to go in . Why Alex Murdaugh was spared the death penalty, Why Trudeau is facing calls for a public inquiry, The shocking legacy of the Dutch 'Hunger Winter', Why half of India's urban women stay at home. Robert passed this down the line bullying his eight-year-old brother into playing truant. 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I just burst into tears because you just knew what that meanther heart was broken. At night, for instance, the two boys would lie in bed together and suck each others thumbs. Denise, James Bugler's mother, went with her brother's girlfriend Nicola to the Bootle Strand Shopping Centre and took James with her. What upsets me is I've no way of bringing him up for the rest of his young years so he's going to lose all his childhood. On the days he was at school he had a knack for stirring things up. He's quite bright and clever. Look at mine. The couple fought frequently as to their eldest sons troubles, which they later learned included mild learning difficulties, and Susan, at times becoming so exasperated by the situation, began to resent her sons presence. To widespread dismay and condemnation from the Bulger family, the killers were given new identities, courtesy of the taxpayer. The old wood panelled courtroom is small. He had a Game Boy console and hankered after a Sega machine, and when they played truant he would head straight for the computer game corner of Tandy's or Dixons. Put bluntly, Jon Venables still gets a kick out of seeing small children suffer. . The sunrises through the sea mist over the sculpture The Couple by Sean Henry at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea on the Northumberland coast. A police officer remembered Venables being so small that his legs didn't touch the floor as he sat in the custody office after his arrest. We still think the same of him as we always have. He wanted a Rovers strip for his birthday present. Other parents came in to complain about attention seeking. Robert had eaten too many and felt sick. On November 24, 1993, the two boys, by then aged 11, became the youngest defendants to be sentenced for murder in a British court. He is broken- hearted over it. this weekend for breaching the terms of his early release, the parents of both the Bulger killers continue to stand by them. Verdict day came. A heartstopping moment came when the playing of the tapes in court was paused. She got her drinking under control and began giving her murderer son the attention he. He said that on the day James was killed, when he went to the school in the afternoon to collect Jon he was told his son was missing. Both parents hope was that he would make something of his life and eventually find some peace. They deal with drugs, they deal with everything. It would be a week before we heard their voices, in hours of taped police interviews, They stopped us all in our tracks. Susan Venables, mother of Jon - referred to throughout the trial as Boy B - blamed her son's 'weakness' for the murder of James Bulger, and said he was going through torment. Not their punishmentand exclusion from society for the rest of their childhood. Among the list were several horror films, including one video in which the police took special interest: Child's Play 3, a film which carries the line 'Children are consumer trainees'. The four who drove Suzanne to Romiley - Jean Powell (now Jean Gillespie), Bernadette McNeilly, Glyn Powell, and Anthony Dudson - were all found guilty of murder. Pictures; Inside the Guardian; Guardian Weekly . He had left her to bring up six children alone. Take him home, the officer would say to her. This would have put Jon in a particularly arduous position, as the couples only excelling child, and as author Gitta Sereny observed from her time spent with the Venables in 1994, forcing this middle child, Jon, for a long time, perhaps unconsciously, to compensate his mother for her two problem children, put an enormous weight of responsibility on this child virtually from the time he was born., As Susan struggled to manage her two disadvantaged children day to day, Neil was the familys breadwinner, working as a forklift driver. On November 24, 1993, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables became the youngest persons to be convicted of murder in Britain in almost 250 years, when the pair, both eleven, was found guilty of the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Patrick Bulger. WALTON, where they both lived, is, in the jargon of planning, an inner-city urban priority area; neither the best nor the worst the city has to offer. The best photos of birds and other wildlife from around the world. They fled the city, never to return. Venables was a different creature. Robert would give Jon presents of stolen objects: trolls, of course, toy terrapins, sweets. They passed 36 people, with one recalling how they urged the boys to take their 'little brother' home because he was 'crying for his mummy'. He did like to be liked, and loved to have friends, and he has got involved with the wrong person.". As a result of the incident, Jon's mother decided to move him to another school. Friday 12th February 1993. One investigating police officer said: 'You could look into the eyes of Robert and knew you were looking at evil.' At the trialnine months laterI would learn that Robert Thompson had been among those people. He has had Christmas presents. Susan Venables has blamed weakness for her sons role in the killing of James Bulger, claiming that he got involved with the wrong person. From the start, Jon was drawn and repulsed by Robbie like opposite and equal poles of a magnet. Lady Penelope was his favourite character because she was rich, followed by Brains with the glasses. She said that Jon was always "loving, caring, thoughtful and considerate . Teachers later reported that whereas the boys were manageable when separated, together their behavior worsened dramatically.
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