The police are entering new territory with this investigation as no-one has ever interviewed child murder suspects before. To ensure their testimonies will stand up in court, it’s important that the two boys understand the implications of telling lies and telling the truth and know the differences between right and wrong. Asking specific questions to prove these facts, they both pass. So the questioning commences. It's a heart-rending & disturbing book that can't fail to stir the reader's emotions, but Ralph has done James proud in documenting his story here so well. He has suffered years of emotional turbulence & daily nightmares as he struggles to come to terms with the barbaric murder of his gentle & innocent son, & it's by no means an easy read sometimes. I did wonder about James' mum Denise though, the torture she would have endured not only with losing her son in such a terrible way, but in also losing her husband while he shut down and couldn't open up to her. So many mums have cheeky little kids who run off in the exciting atmosphere of a shopping centre, but you don't expect them to be abducted by other children.

Hollyoaks producers drop scenes echoing the killing of James Bulger". Daily Telegraph. London. 15 November 2009. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014 . Retrieved 8 November 2014. Schoolboy tells of James Bulger's tears: Children said murder case victim was a brother, court told". The Independent. London. 9 November 1993. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012 . Retrieved 25 March 2010.I was crying so much I couldn't breathe. The thought of leaving the shopping centre without him was crushing. I knew that walking away from the place where he had gone missing, without any idea where he now was, meant that things were really bad. James had been right by my side and then he was gone forever.'

His death reverberated around the world and his killers became the youngest ever convicted murderers in UK legal history. Four minutes is all it took for them to lead James away from his mother to his death. Denise took up a tortuous legal battle for James, and it was her astonishing strength and love for her son that ultimately helped to change the way the law treats victims of crime. All I can say is that James for me is a symbol of beauty, innocence & perfection. He encapsulates everything that I love about life when I see his smiling face, or read about his giggly & energetic character.I wish the words I am going to write could do this book justice but they won't. It was one of the most difficult books I have ever read, but also one of the most inspiring. And any difficulties I had reading this or however upset it made me, that doesn't come close to how it must have felt to Ralph to have to relive the past 20 years all over again for this book. I hope it helped him writing this book. everyone remembers the headline news of this tragic story. I thought I knew, two young lads abducting a toddler and leaving him dead. I just couldn't comprehend it, too horrific for words. like the entire nation I watched, I read, I followed the up dates. A powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph Bulger The Courts are SOMETHING ELSE....... The police did they job and got V and T arrested and the courts had then found GUILTY,,,,,,,,, THEN some woman decided to not let there NAMES BE USED AND BE GIVING NEW ID'S Sereny, Gitta (6 February 1994). "Re-examining the evidence". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010 . Retrieved 10 March 2010.

Two youngsters who found a new rule to break". The Guardian. 25 November 1993. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015 . Retrieved 10 March 2013.One has to wonder why the rights of the horrifically tortured victim, James Bulger, were and are considered of less importance than the rights of two people who, when they were mere children, consciously and deliberately chose to do evil when they abducted James on that fateful day with the intent to kill. And still they show no remorse for their crime. Billington, Michael (9 May 2009). "Monsters". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014 . Retrieved 11 March 2010.

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