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...jury in Preston, England, convicted two boys of the abduction and brutal murder near Liverpool last February of a two-year-old, James Bulger. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both just 10 years old at the time of the killing, were sentenced to prison for an indefinite term...
...year- old boys with tidy haircuts, had just left the ornate, oak-paneled Court 1, where the floor of the dock had been raised a foot to allow them to see over the brass rail. The boys are charged with abducting and brutally murdering two-year-old James Bulger last February in Liverpool, and with the attempted abduction of another toddler the same day. The ghastliness of the case and the youth of the defendants shocked the nation and particularly Liverpool, where mobs demonstrated against the boys. For the sake of fairness, the trial was moved 20 miles north...
Last week as the trial began, the prosecution in Regina v. A and B (Two Children) -- no other identification is allowed -- told of how Denise Bulger, 25, was buying meat at the butcher in a mall when she looked down to find that her high-spirited James had vanished from her side. Only a few minutes later, as she frantically searched for him, James was walking off with two boys, his hand trustingly in theirs. The scene, captured in a hazy film on mall security cameras, was shown in court to the nine men and three women on the jury...
...both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...
...always thought that you can't have a robust economy without a stable government," Bulger said, "But I recall him correcting me by telling me to consider Italy, a robust economy with an unstable government...