James Bulger murder


Well this a thoroughly depressing topic for a Friday morning isn't it.


Was flicking through the telly in bed a few months back and was a programme on about it. Little bastards. Chilling.
 
Can remember at the time it properly sent my mam off the deep end - If it was 28 years ago I would have been 16 and she properly freaked out - wouldn't let me out of the house (bear in mind I was 6ft 2 by this point) for weeks and I got properly pissed off. Then over the years I found out what had gone on - was horrific.
 
Can remember at the time it properly sent my mam off the deep end - If it was 28 years ago I would have been 16 and she properly freaked out - wouldn't let me out of the house (bear in mind I was 6ft 2 by this point) for weeks and I got properly pissed off. Then over the years I found out what had gone on - was horrific.
Aye it affected my mam badly as well. I would have been 8 but my brother was 2. Shopping trips were like a military operation for ages afterwards.
 
Chilling, sickening and terrifying that two children could be that calculating and lacking in emotion or ethics.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much the parents of James Bulger have suffered from the minute his mum saw he had gone.

I hadn’t realised until recently that the two boys had almost managed to grab another child just moments earlier.
 
It feels like it was longer than 28 years ago. I remember it but couldn't possibly read about it, I remember how much it freaked my mam out at the time
 
It feels like it was longer than 28 years ago. I remember it but couldn't possibly read about it, I remember how much it freaked my mam out at the time
Worked in the triad a few times , hmrc building above the shopping centre , mate from work was in Liverpool when the trial was held , he said it was an awful uneasy atmosphere
 
28 years ago today (was a Friday also) its been a long time now but still haunts me more then any other case.
It’s sat with me for life because I was the same age as they boys doing it. There’s never been a point in my life I’ve come close to thinking it was acceptable, so I can’t ever work out what was going through their minds. It scares the shit outta me that other humans have a very different look on things
 
remember it at the time. didn't know some of the worst detail until around 2-3 years ago, now wish I hadn't read it
 
It still hits me to think how two ten year old boys were capable of committing such an incomprehensible act of pure evil.

Like many on this thread, I am of his generation and it definitely made my parents more protective. They would tell it to me as a story to warn about wandering away.
 
I was doing work experience at Dryburn Hospital at the time. I was spending a week in the Child Psychology Unit, basically typing up case notes of young patients who had witnessed/involved in various trauma (assault, witness to parent's harm, etc). It was mentally draining listening to the consultant case notes.

On last day within that unit one of the child psychologists had to rush off to catch a train to Liverpool(?). I later learned from person who did the following week's work experience, that the psychologist had been called down to sit in on the police interviews with two lads suspected (at the time) of being responsible of torture and murder of that young bairn.
 
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I was doing work experience at Dryburn Hospital at the time. I was spending a week in the Child Psychology Unit, basically typing up case notes of young patients who had witnessed/involved in various trauma (assault, witness to parent's harm, etc). It was mentally draining listening to the consultant case notes.

On last day within that unit one of the child psychologists had to rush off to catch a train to Liverpool(?). I later learned from person who did the following week's work experience, that the psychologist had been called down to sit in on the police interviews with two lads suspected (at the time) of being responsible of torture and murder of that young bairn.

Bet they wished they'd missed the train.
 
Fucked with my head this one in that I'd always argued against those wanting them treated the same way as adult murderers, as whilst they'll have known it was wrong children don't understand in the same way adults do. But then when I see how one of the two turned out and went on to be a complete waste of skin it sort of makes me question my stance. You never hear much of the other one mind.
 
They get let out one day with new identities funded by us.... Death penalty for me... That poor kid and his family.... 28 yrs of torture
 
They get let out one day with new identities funded by us.... Death penalty for me... That poor kid and his family.... 28 yrs of torture

You'd have put two 10 year olds to death?
Or would you wait until they were 18, then open the hatch.

Keep them locked up for the rest of their days. I'm not sure you could ever rehabilitate a person who was capable of that at 10.
 

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