Vintage photo of Funeral of James Bulger.

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In March2012, a 26year-old man from Chorley, Lancashire, was arrested after allegedly setting up a Facebook group with the title "What happened to Jamie Bulger was f**king hilarious." The man's computer was seized for further investigations. [84] Internet photo posts [ edit ] In May 2017, James Riley was sentenced to two years and four months behind bars after admitting a spate of commercial burglaries. Sarah Holt, defending him in that case, said: "He has been a drug addict for a considerable period of time – all his adult life and in fact most of his adolescence. In February 1993, grainy CCTV images showed two-year-old James being led out of Bootle's Strand shopping centre by the schoolboys. They led him to the disused Walton & Anfield railway station, near Walton Lane police station, where they tortured and murdered him. Officials wrote: "The panel listed as risk factors those influences that made it more likely that Mr Venables would reoffend in the future.

Bulger mother calls on director to drop out of awards". Oscars 2019. BBC News. 24 January 2019. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019 . Retrieved 24 January 2019. It also offers a bizarre insight into the minds of Venables — who thought baby James was growing inside him — and Thompson — who thought he could smell his victim’s “baby smell” after he’d killed him. Foster, Jonathan (10 November 1993). "James Bulger suffered multiple fractures: Pathologist reveals two-year-old had 42 injuries including fractured skull. Jonathan Foster reports". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 29 August 2009.James had been taken to the shopping centre by his mother Denise, who was briefly distracted in a butcher’s shop and noticed her son had disappeared. On 14March 2008, an appeal to set up a Red Balloon Learner Centre in Merseyside in memory of James Bulger was launched by his mother and Esther Rantzen. [74] [75] A memorial garden in Bulger's memory was created in Sacred Heart Primary School in his hometown of Kirkby, the school he would have been expected to attend had he not been murdered. [9]

On 23November 2017, it was reported that Venables had again been recalled to prison for possession of more child sexual abuse imagery. The Ministry of Justice declined to comment on the reports. [127] On 5January 2018, Venables was charged with unspecified offences relating to indecent images of children. [128] On 7February 2018, Venables pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images of children for a second time. He pleaded guilty via video link to three charges of making indecent images of children, and one of possessing a "paedophile manual", that included advice for would-be child molesters, including instructions on child grooming and evading detection. [129] He admitted being in possession of 392category A, 148category B, and 630category C child sexual abuse images, and was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. In September2020, he was denied parole. [130] His next parole hearing is scheduled to take place in November2023. [131] 2019 legal challenge to lift anonymity refused [ edit ]

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The then shadow home secretary, Tony Blair, vowed to be “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” as both main parties jostled for a more punitive approach. In 1998, the new Labour government abolished an important legal principle that protected children aged 10 to 14 from being criminalised. Four years later, Blair introduced new police targets that caused a huge increase in the number of young people in trouble with the law for the first time, peaking at 110,784 in 2006/7. It has since fallen sharply and today stands at just over 8,000, of whom 320 are aged 10 to 12. England, Wales and Northern Ireland remain some of the only nations in the western world to criminalise children under 12. Mr Henriques told the jury: 'You may wonder why we go through this journey in such detail. One of the matters the prosecution seek to prove is that this whole thing was a joint enterprise from beginning to end. You will see time and again how each boy has hold of one hand. Each plays a significant part.' Now, quarter of a century after the fateful day young James was taken away, a new documentary has given a disturbing new insight into the minds of the notorious killers and put forward a new theory as to why they did it. In August2001, a stage play titled The Age of Consent by Peter Morris was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play featured an 18year-old character called Timmy, who was due to be released from a secure unit after luring a toddler away from his mother and beating him to death. James Bulger: The New Revelations, which has just aired on UK television suggests Thompson and Venables may have been partly motivated by envy of a child who was loved.

Bulger mother 'sees son's killer' ". BBC News. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009 . Retrieved 26 October 2014. Eight days after James' murder, on February 20, Liverpool supporters showed their respect prior to a home match against Ipswich Town by holding a minute's silence and holding aloft a banner reading 'RIP JAMES'. The city once again showed tonight James' memory lives on courtesy of a new banner divided in red and blue, accompanied by the following message: '30 years and never forgotten. You'll Never Walk Alone.'

In August2009, Australia's Seven Network used real footage of James Bulger's abduction to promote its crime drama City Homicide. The use of the footage was criticised by Bulger's mother, and Seven apologised. [143]