Nothing brought home more powerfully how young Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were when they abducted and murdered toddler Jamie Bulger in February 1993, than the audiotapes recorded during the police interviews following their arrest in The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done? (Channel 4).
Twenty-five years on, Thompson and Venables still sound even younger than the 10 years of age they were at the time, initially denying, then describing abducting the two-year-old, and beating and stoning him to death.
It is still all but impossible to believe that children that young could be capable of committing a crime which was described by the presiding judge Mr Justice Morland as “an act of unparalleled evil and brutality.”
Hearing the tapes again, reliving the sense of horror, the press frenzy and public outrage, was disturbing all over again. It was a stark reminder of the case, and the huge emotions and issues at its heart...
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