I Let Him Go: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger- updated for the 30th anniversary, in memory of James: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger

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I think I will be thinking about this book and other things I discovered while reading about it for a long time.

Barry George was convicted and later acquitted of the infamous 1999 shooting of the television presenter on the doorstep of her London home. But it is also deeply moving and inspirational and shows the strength of character and resolve that Denise possesses in her determination to finally get true justice for her baby son. His parents divorced when he was three-years-old and together they share joint custody of him and his two siblings. They represent parents’ worst nightmare : that if you turn your back for a moment your children will be stolen away and murdered. Twenty years after the murder of Liverpool toddler James Bulger, his mum Denise Fergus reflects on the past and the battles still to come".I, on the other hand, do not possess such grace, so I would like to end this review by saying I hope these two don't die before experiencing the kind of fear and pain they inflicted on that little boy. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two and a half miles (four kilometres) away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his abduction.

I've never heard of this case before, so I decided to read the wiki article about it first and was shocked to my core when I found out the murderers were both just 10 years old. SUPPER WITH THE CRIPPENS, about the notorious Edwardian crime was published by Orion in 2005 and is currently in development as a drama series for television. Thompson was considered to have taken the leading role in the abduction process, though it was Venables who had apparently initiated the idea of taking Bulger to the railway line. On 15 March 1999, the court in Strasbourg ruled by 14 votes to five that there had been a violation of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the fairness of the trial of Thompson and Venables, stating: "The public trial process in an adult court must be regarded in the case of an 11-year-old child as a severely intimidating procedure.I found the author's concern for the boys' anxiety about going to trial and his speculation as to abuse they may have suffered (without an iota of supporting evidence) just ridiculous. Despite this, Bulger's mother, Denise, told how in 2004 she received a tip-off from an anonymous source that helped her locate Thompson. The love she has for James, her family, her children and her husband just shines through throughout the whole book and I feel incredibly happy that she has been able to achieve this within her life after such a tragedy. Shortly after the trial, and after the judge had recommended a minimum sentence of eight years, Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, recommended that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years, [9] which would have made them eligible for release in February 2003 at the age of 20. In 2005, when Venables was 23, his probation officer met another girlfriend of his, who was aged 17.

The judge, Mr Justice David Bean, ruled that Venables's new identity could not be revealed, but the media were allowed to report that he had been living in Cheshire at the time of his arrest. We all remember the murder of James Bulger, and the shock and revulsion when his murderers were revealed to be boys aged just 10 years old. According to his mother, James wasn't even able to speak properly, so he couldn't have exposed their identities even if he survived and happened to remember their faces.

Jon Venables has since been re-arrested twice, and is currently serving time over owning child pornography.