Unforgiven: The Boys Who Killed A Child (Jamie Bulger Documentary) | Real Stories
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Length: 49min 3sec (2943 seconds)
Published: Sat Feb 17 2018
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This documentary is from 2001 or 2002, if anyone is curious as to how the two killers would end up we do have some answers now.
In the nearly two decades since their release, Thompson has been in no trouble with the law and I recall reading he was employed and engaged. Venables on the other hand has confessed his true identity on at least two occasions, been caught drunkenly brawling, had a series of girlfriends below the age of 18, was back in prison in 2010 for possessing images of rather severe child abuse, and a couple of years ago he was caught with them again. He's currently locked up.
I read Jamie Bulger's dad's book a few years ago, absolutely heart wrenching. There is a section written by Jamie's uncle, he went to identify the body so that the parents didn't have to. He said he can't get the images out of his head it absolutely changed his life but he couldn't allow his brother to see his son like that so he has no regrets, what a bloke.
A short, more recent update on Robert Thompson and Jon Venables can be read here.
(For more information, click on the links in the article.)
It is alleged that Thompson hasn't been in trouble with the law after being released, that he indeed is in a relationship with a man. Police thought he was the one in charge.
Venables's life after being released for the abduction, torture and murder of James Bulger is a very different story...and it's a bad one, full of heinous crimes.
Bulger's mother doesn't want that the new identities of her son's murderers are released to the public, to avoid vigilante justice.
Bulger's father and uncle are of the opinion that Venables has lost his right to lifelong anonymity because he has re-offended several times.
Venables has been arrested twice since on child pornographers charges.
I remember when this story was all over the news, and how haunting the video was of them just corralling this little kid and leading him out of the mall, to his death.
Three young lives just wasted for no reason.
Scrolling through reddit, I wondered if this was what I thought it was.
This story might be the single most disturbing thing I've ever heard. The fact that the perps were children makes it so much more awful.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, will help you understand why these two boys did what they did to that wee boy. Every aspect of this case is nauseating and horrifying - this documentary is not for the faint of heart.
I was maybe 12 when I was going off the deep end on Wikipedia and came across this story. My English wasnβt good enough to even understand all of it back then. But I still remember everything Iβve read that day. 10 years later. I think Amy McDonald even made a song thatβs written in Jameβs perspective. Talking to his parents from the grave. That heβs alright and not hurting anymore. This is one of those cases that just turns your stomach and brings you to tears decades later.
They did not just kill a two year old boy, they tortured him to death.
That is an important distinction.