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Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with Bulger's abduction and murder.
The pair were found guilty on 24 November 1993, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history. They were sentenced to custody until they reached adulthood, initially until the age of 18, and were released on a lifelong licence in June 2001.
"James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a boy from Kirkby, England, who was murdered on 12 February 1993, when aged two. He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982). Bulger disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two-and-a-half miles (4 km) away in Walton, two days after his murder. "
Van carrying the boys responsible for the murder of James Bulger.
Up to five hundred protesters gathered at South Sefton Magistrates' Court during the boys' initial court appearances. The parents of the accused were moved to different parts of the country and assumed new identities following death threats from vigilantes.
The video cramas was not so detail with Thompson and Venables faces, making the search a bit harder for the law enforcements to find them.
A controversial publication ban in Britain was imposed for another reason: to protect the killers of two-year-old James Bulger from vigilante justice. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who were 10 years old when they beat the toddler to death in 1993, were given new identities when they were released in June 2002.
The judge imposed a permanent publication ban on any details about their new identities or where they will be relocated. He said that " the press's continued interest in the case left the two vulnerable to harassment and violence".
This is a great example of a case that involved a publication ban it was suppose to protect 10 year old kids, Thompson and Venables that murder a 2 year old child. This is a very shocking and sad story, that got a lot of people angry about. It got alot of parents worried about their own children being abducted. Robert and Jon was youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
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