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Bulger case

James' disappearance: original reports

14 February, 1993: James goes missing

Shop security camera filmed kidnap of two-year-old James
Police last night were studying video footage that shows two-year-old James Bulger being snatched by two youths in a Merseyside shopping mall on Friday.

15 February, 1993: The body is found

Body of missing 2-year-old found
A murder inquiry was under way last night after a body found on a railway line at Walton, Liverpool, was formally identified as the missing two-year-old Merseyside boy, James Bulger.

Eyewitness in Liverpool

Heysel, Hillsborough and now this
Maggie O'Kane: She could smell the odour from her body as she spoke.

A quiet fear at the Strand
At the corner of Mons Square in the Strand shopping centre, a little girl in a pink coat and white socks whimpered as her legs were slapped, for straying from her mother's side.

The murder of innocence
The image lingers. A tiny child holds the hand of a much older boy. Their backs are turned to us but it is what the hands express that matters: it is a universal message of trust holding on to protection, of vulnerability giving itself to responsibility.


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