This was a shame as it would have been interesting to look at the study and it’s findings to consider this hypothesis further.

Schoolboy tells of James Bulger's tears: Children said murder case victim was a brother, court told". His latest book LET US PREY - A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND DECEPTION is an Audible Original, available exclusively on Audible read by the author. Reading this book was harder than I expected, and the very factual style of writing brought home not just the horror of the murder, but the terrible circumstances in which the two murderers (and their families) had been raised. The fact that the suspects were so young came as a shock to investigating officers, headed by Detective Superintendent Albert Kirby of Merseyside Police.

During the police investigation, it emerged that Child's Play 3 was one of the films that Venables's father had rented in the months prior to the killing, but it was not established that Venables had ever watched it. The book is harrowing, sensitive and some knowing accounts of the James Bulger Murder Case where two ten years old boys did the emotional crime in 1993. I can't possibly begin to imagine what any parent would feel reading this, or james's parents who lived this nightmare. I can only say that John Major's 1993 declaration that "we must condemn a little more, and understand a little less" (p. The trial judge Mr Justice Morland stated that exposure to violent videos might have encouraged the actions of Thompson and Venables; this was disputed by David Maclean, the Minister of State at the Home Office at the time, who said that police had found no evidence linking the case with " video nasties".

He would go into backgrounds of police officers, prosecutors and psychiatrists and I felt that it was unneeded. The court also held that the Home Secretary's intervention had led to a "highly charged atmosphere", which resulted in an unfair judgment.

Jon venables would go on to reoffend and is still jail as we speak for child pornography offences for the second time yet he is still protected under yet another assumed name! Of course how you grow up and what happens in your childhood has a huge impact on who you become, BUT it is one thing to steal and play truant from school, and quite another to abduct, torture and kill another living thing, be it animal or human.

Thompson and Venables took James to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, where he was dropped on his head and suffered facial injuries. The pathologist spent 33 minutes outlining the injuries sustained by Bulger; many of those to his legs had been inflicted after he was stripped from the waist down. On 7 March, media reports said that he had been accused of offences related to possession of child sexual abuse material.

The detailing as to what went on, lead to and after the murder is captured thoroughly in this book, mostly unemotionally too. But this author clearly has a lot of sympathy for these two little monsters yeah I said monsters cause that’s what they are! 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. Thatcherism and Smith's list of similar crimes perpetrated in the Victorian era, which implies connections on the basis of how the working class is being treated).