The toddler was abducted from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on February 12, 1993 by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Here is who their parents are and how they reacted ...

In 1999, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the pair did not receive a fair trial and awarded costs and expenses of £29,000 to Jon Venables and £15,000 to Robert Thompson.

Experts believe, as well as the devastation wreaked on James' family, the lives of his ... missing and gave police two names - Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. The boys were charged on February ...

LONDON (AFP) – The parents of murdered ... Britain's most notorious murderers, Jon Venables, then aged 10, was imprisoned for life along with 10-year-old friend Robert Thompson for the 1993 ...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were found guilty of killing Bulger in November 1993 and were sentenced to custody until they reached 18. ... observation from a family friend; ...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were just ten-years-old when ... But the President of the Family Division Sir Andrew McFarlane rejected the bid, saying it was in place to protect Venables ...

James Bulger’s parents have spoken of their horror ... tortured and killed by 10 year olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in Liverpool in February 1993. The two boys were jailed for life ...

His dad abandoned the family five years before Bulger ... James Bulger was lured from a Liverpool shopping mall by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Just recently it emerged the other killer ...

The lawyer to Jamie Bulger's killer Jon Venables ... it became clear that Venables had been lying and that he had in fact carried out the killing with his friend Robert Thompson, also then aged ...

His dad abandoned the family five years before Bulger ... James Bulger was lured from a Liverpool shopping mall by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Just recently it emerged the other killer ...

ROBERT Thompson abducted, tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger alongside his partner in crime Jon Venables when they were just 10 years old.