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James Bulger murder

December 2023

  • Jon Venables

    James Bulger killer Jon Venables loses Parole Board bid to be freed from jail

    Panel says it is not satisfied releasing child killer at this point would be safe for protection of the public

September 2023

  • Jon Venables

    James Bulger’s mother in ‘shock’ over prospect of Jon Venables being freed

  • Composite image of Bulger and Venables

    James Bulger killer Jon Venables granted parole hearing

February 2023

  • A mother and young boy walk hand-in-hand towards the front of the dilapidated Strand shopping centre in Bootle.

    ‘The wounds don’t ever heal’: 30 years after James Bulger’s murder, Bootle cannot forget

    In 1993, the UK was held in horror by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger. From the scene of his abduction to the youth justice system, the distress still reverberates

March 2021

  • Denise Fergus, Mother of James Bulger

    ‘I shouldn’t have let go of him’: the pain of James Bulger’s mother 28 years on

    Denise Fergus reveals how a TV documentary on her son’s 1993 murder has exposed the hidden impact on his brothers

March 2019

  • Duncan Campbell

    When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves

    Duncan Campbell
  • Jon Venables (R) at the time of his arrest in 1993 for the kidnap, torture and murder of two-year-old James Bulger (L).

    James Bulger's father loses bid to overturn Venables' anonymity

February 2019

  • Leon Hughes in the film Detainment.

    What leads children to commit ‘evil’ acts?

  • Leon Hughes as Robert Thompson in Detainment.

    James Bulger film director Vincent Lambe: 'I was told they were evil'

January 2019

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Did we really need a film about the James Bulger murder?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    The film about James Bulger’s killers has reopened the debate, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • 'Loose Women' TV show, London, UK - 07 Jan 2019<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (10050524ba) Denise Fergus 'Loose Women' TV show, London, UK - 07 Jan 2019 GUEST: DENISE FERGUS &amp; HUSBAND STUART - 'OUR ANGER AT NEW FILM' Denise Fergus is the mother of James Bulger, the two-year-old who was abducted and killed in 1993, by 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. James was one month short of his third birthday. Denise joins us in an exclusive interview after the director of a new James Bulger drama ‘Detainment’, sparked fury when he admitted he didn’t contact Denise, or James’ dad, before making it. The film has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination, however Denise is going to fight to have it dropped, as well as campaign for a new law that will require filmmakers of true crime events to inform the victims’ families. Denise will be joined by her husband and rock Stuart Fergus who is helping her through this difficult time.

    James Bulger's parents 'disgusted' as film about son's killers gets Oscar nomination

    Denise Fergus and Ralph Bulger attack shortlisting of Detainment, a drama based on the police interrogation of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
  • Ely Solan as Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, in the film Detainment.

    James Bulger's mother calls for Oscars to drop drama about son's killers

    Bulger’s parents argue Detainment, a short film about the 1993 case, is sympathetic to the toddler’s murderers and shouldn’t have been made

May 2018

  • Jon Venables

    James Bulger's father launches bid to end Jon Venables' anonymity

    Father and uncle of murdered toddler challenge order that has protected killer’s identity

February 2018

  • Saoirse-Monica Jackson (standing) as Erin in Derry Girls.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Derry Girls; Endeavour; James Bulger: A Mother’s Story and more – review

    Lisa McGee’s manic delight of a comedy came to an end, Endeavour returned for more subtly subversive whodunnit comfort, and nearly all eyes were on the ski jump…
  • ‘He’s talked about every single day’ … Denise Fergus with Trevor McDonald.

    TV review
    James Bulger: A Mother’s Story review – the pain continues 25 years later

    Sir Trevor is empathic and dignified as he visits Denise Fergus before Christmas and hears how she still sets a place for her son. Hearing her relive the day her boy went missing is unbearable
  • Jon Venables

    Bulger killer jailed over indecent images of children

    Jon Venables, who served eight years for two-year-old James’s murder, sentenced to 40 months

January 2018

  • Denise Fergus, mother of James Bulger

    My son, James Bulger: ‘I don't have the energy for anger any more’

    Twenty-five years after her son was murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Denise Fergus looks back

November 2017

  • Deborah Orr

    Society did right by James Bulger’s killers

    Deborah Orr
  • Jon Venables

    James Bulger killer back in jail after being caught with abuse images again

October 2016

  • Denise Fergus

    Man jailed for stalking mother of murdered toddler James Bulger

    Howard Wilson, who also received police warning in 2008 for stalking Denise Fergus, sentenced to 26 weeks
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