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Channel 5 is set to air a new two-part documentary that tells the definitive story of the murder of James Bulger, who was horrifically killed byJonVenables and Robert Thompson after beingsnatched from a shopping centre in 1993. In 2006, reports claimed Robert Thompson was in a stable relationship and had settled well into his local community in the North West. In 2010, it was reported that he was in a long-term relationship with a man who knows his real identity. Thompson and Venables then disposed of his body on the railroad track to make it appear as though it had been an accident. DetectivePhil Roberts was on Merseysides serious crime squad when he got a call at 6am on February 13, 1993, about a two-year-old boy who had gone missing from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle. Thompson and Venables were 11 when they faced a 17-day trial at Preston Crown Court in November 1993, and were the youngest murder defendants in the UK in over 100 years. Updated: 15:17 ET, Sep 29 2021. "They joined in that campaign and we cannot accept it is in any way exculpatory that others were doing it. AT just ten years old, Jon Venables callously abducted and murdered James Bulger, 2, in 1993 in a case that sent shockwaves through the UK and the rest of the world. Anorak News | Pssst! However, his plea was denied as it was ruled it would be too dangerous and would lead to vigilante attacks. Robert Thompson was born on August 23, 1982 - the fifth of seven children. This ought to be informed by emotion, incredulity, and instinct; but at its heart ought to be driven by logic and empirical evidence, that the balance of probability of Venables being a recidivist offender is too great, and there ought, as a matter of reason, to be a point at which an individual forfeits their right to reside within society. Do you think it's fair that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson got to Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Don't have an account? His dad abandoned the family five years before Bulger's murder - leaving mum Ann devastated. Venables and Thompson were released in 2001 on life licence after serving eight years for the murder of James who was battered on a railway line.