The police act on this information and plain clothes policemen in unmarked cars are sent to arrest them.

With the public’s support in trying to catch the killer, the one thing the police aren’t short of is information.Some time thereafter, he began a relationship with a woman who had a five-year-old child; it is not known whether Venables had already begun downloading child abuse images at the time of dating the woman, although he denies having ever met the child.

Denise chooses not to focus on what ifs, nor is she interested in deciphering the reasons why two young boys killed her child. The court dismissed their claim that the trial was inhuman and degrading treatment but upheld their claim they were denied a fair trial by the nature of the court proceedings.

Thompson and Venables laid James Bulger across the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, hoping that a train would hit him and his death would be ruled an accident. I lost it again at the end, where her four sons are pictured together and she captioned the photo: “I love this picture of my four boys together. The witnesses all blame themselves for not interfering, but they weren’t to know the terrible crime that would unfold. Reading about those scenes, the disappearance and then the arrest of two children and then their trials just filled me with dread, made me feel sick and just made tears stream down my face.