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RELEASED. ROBERT THOMPSON and JON VENABLES, both 18, having served eight years in a children's unit for torturing and killing two-year-old James Bulger in 1993; in London. Their shocking crime--at age 10, the two youths lured James from a shopping center and laid him on railway tracks where a train cut him in half--prompted a nationwide debate over whether they should be paroled. They will be given new identities...
...Overall, Bulger ties with Sergeant Robert Kotowski for accuracy, and bests him in time, taking the lead. But with another 30 officers to go, the top spot is still anyone's guess...
Through 60 rounds and countless magazine changes, Detective Sergeant Richard Mederos and Officer Christopher P. Bulger, who were taking the qualifying test yesterday, fired from behind barricades, moving, standing, crouching, with arms locked and firing from...
...even for Britain, the order is extraordinary. The victim's family is enraged, as are the ever ravenous British tabloids. "What right have they got to be given special protection as adults?" asks Bulger's mother Denise Fergus. Newspaper editorials have insisted that citizens have a right to know if Venables or Thompson move in next door. Says conservative Member of Parliament Humfrey Malins: "It almost leaves you with the feeling that the nastier the crime, the greater the chance for a passport to a completely new life...
...perhaps Venables and Thompson have earned that chance. Both have expressed remorse for their crime and have spent years in intensive counseling. Plus, Judge Butler-Sloss based her decision on some very real threats facing the two. Bulger's father vowed just last October to "try my best to hunt them down." The British tabloids would like to do the same...