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Demon ears". The Guardian. 21 March 1999. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 13 February 2017 . Retrieved 15 April 2023. The Bulger case has prompted widespread debate about how to handle young offenders when they are sentenced or released from custody. [6] [7] Murder [ edit ] Victim James BulgerThe facts are very easily stated. One day a mother and her friend went shopping in a big mall in Bootle, Merseyside. She took her almost three year old along. He was toddling around the shops with her. She was buying meat for the Sunday roast and when she looked round, he was gone. He was there one minute, playing at the shop entrance, and gone the next. That was the last she saw of him. Two ten year old boys, truanting from school, had led him away from the shop, away from his mother, and away from the shopping mall. Here’s the famous CCTV image, discovered by the police some hours later.

They were sentenced to a minimum of eight years in a juvenile detention centre. What happened to them afterwards? Hard to put any stars on this because it seems sensationalist to do so. You wouldn't say this is a great read and I'd find it hard to recommend it, even though I read it in its entirety I did find I was asking myself why I wanted to read this or continue reading it.

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