
Bulger killer Jon Venables set for parole review
Jon Venables, who was 10 when he killed James Bulger in 1993, last sought parole in December 2023.
BBC News
On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, where Bulger was visiting shops with his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two and a half miles away in Walton, Liverpool, two days later.
Jon Venables, who was 10 when he killed James Bulger in 1993, last sought parole in December 2023.
One of James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, last had a bid to be freed rejected in December 2023.