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Last updated at 8:58 AM on 13th March 2010
Can children really be born evil? Detectives who worked on the James Bulger murder inquiry certainly believed so. They could find no other plausible explanation for the horror which unfolded at Bootle Strand shopping centre all those years ago.
One moment James was at his mother’s side, riding a toy giraffe and pinching a few Smarties from a Woolworth’s counter. Then she turned her back, just for a split second, and he was gone.
On CCTV footage which captured the moment of his abduction frame by haunting frame, we saw him being taken through the mall by a pair of shadowy silhouettes. His final journey ended on a railway embankment in Walton.
James, who was a month short of his third birthday, was found two days later, on February 14, 1993. He had 22 injuries to his head, and another 20 to his body, inflicted with a 22lb iron bar and 27 bricks.
James Bulger’s killers: Jon Venables, left, and Robert Thompson
His body was left across a track, where it was cut in two by a train to make it look like an accident.
Today, 17 years on, one haunting question remains: were the police right? Were Robert Thompson and Jon Venables simply born ‘evil’? Or could it be that they were made evil by their terrible backgrounds?
The question is perhaps even more relevant now than it was then. Murders of children, by children, tripled in the three years leading up to 2008, the most recent statistics available.
The grim tally stands at 37 over those three years. This figure doesn’t even include such cases as ‘Doncaster’, where two small boys tortured two other boys last year. By some miracle, the battered and sexually degraded victims survived.
Apart from the nihilistic savagery, the vast majority of these terrible crimes have at least one thing in common.
It is something that links the murder of James Bulger with Doncaster, and Doncaster with almost every other story of this kind: the background of the youngsters who found themselves in the dock.
Not every child who grows up in a violent, chaotic broken home, where they are exposed to degrading videos, alcoholism and abuse, becomes a danger to society. But they are much more likely to if they are.
Yet the upbringing of the Bulger Killers, as they are more commonly referred to, has been all but forgotten. Indeed, because they were tried in an adult court, evidence about the environment in which they were raised was deemed inadmissible in court.
The boys’ psychiatrist, Eileen Vizard, was allowed to address just three questions: did ‘Boy A’ and ‘Boy B’ - as Thompson and Venables were known in court before the judge allowed them to be named - know the difference between right and wrong?
Behind bars: Jon Venables in 1993 held over the murder of James Bulger, right
Would they have known it was wrong to take a young child away from its mother? Would they have known it was wrong to cause injury to a child?
The answer to all three was ‘Yes’.
With hindsight, there is an equally pertinent question which demands to be asked: would you now be reading about Thompson and Venables if they’d been brought up in different circumstances?
Either way, Venables’ arrest two weeks ago for possession of indecent images of children, following his release on licence in 2001, has once again turned the spotlight on one of the darkest episodes in British criminal history.
In fact, the chain of events which ended in James Bulger’s death began long before the security cameras captured Thompson and Venables leading him away at 3.43pm on February 12, 1993.
It really began at a row of terrace, bay-windowed properties in Walton Village, and at a semi not far away in Scarsdale Road, Norris Green, where Thompson and Venables lived respectively.
Two boys, born ten days apart in Liverpool in August 1982. Two boys who formed a friendship that would have so many tragic repercussions.
Edward Baldwin, 82, lived next door to the Thompsons. ‘What happened to James devastated the neighbourhood and brings back horrible memories,’ he says, his eyes welling with tears.
Shocked a nation: A police tent marks the spot where two-year-old James Bulger’s body was found
Those memories are there, in black and white, in old newspaper cuttings which chronicled the tragedy and in various books which included confidential case notes about Robert Thompson’s horrific family background.
Robert was the fifth of seven brothers. He wore his dark hair short, almost a crew cut, and had a chubby face. He supported Everton. His mates teased him because, whenever there was something on his mind, he sucked his thumb.
His mother Ann married Robert Thompson Snr when she was just 18. He was a man who qualified as a husband and father in name only. An aggressive alcoholic, he would beat Ann mercilessly. On one occasion, she suffered a miscarriage when she was jammed in a door during a violent row.
The boys did not escape the beatings. They were punished by their father with sticks and belts. ‘See the evil in my eyes, tw*t,’ he’d say to them when he was angry.
In 1988, he abandoned his family for another woman. Ann Thompson was unable to cope and turned to drink. At the Top House pub in Walton, neighbours recalled her fights with other women, and sometimes even with men.
One man who commented on the state of her clothes was, according to a family friend, floored with a single punch.
‘She was in the pub from opening time at 11am, and when the kids got home they found her rotten drunk and unable to stand,’ another local recalled. ‘Often, people would have to carry her home.’
The devastating effect this had on the children was revealed in a case conference held at the NSPCC in Liverpool a few weeks after James Bulger died. It was a crowded room.
Present were social workers, solicitors, nurses, youth project leaders, child protection officers, education welfare officers and the boys’ headteacher. Sixteen people in all - for just one family.
The Thompson report is harrowing. The boys, it said, grew up ‘afraid of each other’. And when their father left them, a Lord Of The Flies mentality descended on their home.
Six boys, aged between eight and 20, left to their own devices. Ann Thompson also had an 18-month-old baby by another man.
The eldest boy picked on a younger sibling, that sibling on the next in line, and so the violence percolated down to Robert himself. They bit and battered each other - just like their abusive, alcoholic father had done to them.
The Thompsons were already well known to social services. David, the eldest boy, was put on the child protection register when he was four, after he was seen with cigarette burns and a black eye.
Second brother Ian was stealing at 11. Third brother Philip asked to be taken into care after David allegedly tarred and feathered him.
Campaign: Denise Fergus, the mother of James, protests against the release of Venables and Thompson in 2001
Philip was found by a neighbour chained up and locked in the garden shed. Robert forced younger brother Ryan to skip school and left him alone and crying by a canal.
When his mother challenged Robert and threatened to smack him, he would defy her: ‘You can’t batter me cos’ll go to the busies [the police].’
He and his brothers made the lives of their near-neighbours a misery. They were always lighting fires in the back garden, burning batteries and aerosol cans with other kids.
‘We can do what the f*** we like in our own garden,’ they would tell anyone who complained.
Robert, in particular, was often spotted out after midnight. Ironically, he had shown early promise at school. He was very bright, said one report, and had the potential to be a high achiever.
But as his behaviour deteriorated, truancy reached chronic proportions. In the two years before the killing, a total of 250 ‘half days’ were missed.
Jon Venables was also from a broken home. He was the middle of three children born to Neil and Susan Venables, whose marriage was already in trouble when Jon arrived. They divorced when he was three years old.
Jon was slim in build and taller than Thompson - just over 5ft. He supported Liverpool, but then switched his allegiance to Blackburn Rovers. He was mad on computers.
He had a Game Boy console and hankered after a Sega machine. He carried books on wrestling and wildlife in his school bag.
Like Ann Thompson, Venables’ mother Susan was a regular visitor to local pubs. In January 1987, police were called to the house after the children (then aged seven, five and three) had been left alone for three hours.
Jon’s behaviour deteriorated after his parents split up. His favourite trick with other children was a kick in the shins, followed by a punch to the rib cage. If he didn’t get his way, he would get the family Rottweiler, Blackie, to bark at other terrified youngsters.
Complaints to his mother about his behaviour were, say neighbours, invariably met with abuse.
At school, he threw tantrums and exhibited increasingly disturbing behaviour. ‘He would sit back and hold his desk and rock backwards and forwards, moaning and making strange noises,’ revealed one of his teachers.
On one occasion, he was found hanging upside down like a bat from his peg in the cloakroom.
Venables spent a few days of the week with his father, who friends insisted was a devoted parent. But it emerged that he had rented more than 400 videos in the few years before James Bulger was murdered.
Scores of them contained ultraviolence or pornography.
One of them was the notorious ‘video nasty’ I Spit On Your Grave, in which a woman is gang raped in a cabin.
She avenges herself on the rapists: one is hanged by the neck, another is slaughtered in the bath, and a third is axed in the back, with a close-up of the blade sinking into ‘flesh’
Another video rented by Mr Venables - he always denied his son ever watched them - was Child’s Play 3. The ‘star’ is a demonic doll called Chucky, which comes to life in a military academy.
In a dreadful echo of the Bulger tragedy, he abducts the youngest cadet and tries to kill him under the wheels of a fairground ghost train.
But it is Chucky - dressed in toddler’s dungarees, his faced splashed with blue ‘war games’ paint - who gets horribly mutilated.
The video was the last one rented by Mr Venables before James was abducted, splashed with blue paint, and killed.
Around 18 months before the events that would shock Britain, Jon Venables changed schools in the hope of improving his educational prospects. He was still barely literate.
The school was St Mary’s in Walton, where Robert Thompson was also a pupil.
The two boys had much in common. Both were struggling in school because they played truant, and they’d been lumped together in the year below their age. Both had parents who had separated.
Together they began stealing sweets and toys from shops, threw stones at old ladies’ windows, swore at shopkeepers to goad them into giving chase, and jumped in and out of gardens to enrage householders.
Others told how they stoned birds and tortured cats.
Soon, they would also become the youngest children in the 20th century to be successfully tried for murder.
‘It was a ghastly crime,’ said trial judge Mr Justice Morland at the end of the case at Preston Crown Court in 1993. ‘It is unbelievable that it could have been perpetrated by ten-year-old boys.’
He at least said that their exposure to ‘family problems’ undoubtedly ‘played their part’ in the terrible tragedy.
Many would go further and argue that it was their parents - who have, like Thompson and Venables, been given new identities - who were ultimately responsible for what happened.
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Millions of children in the past have survived terrible abuse and cruelty (it has probably affected them deeply) but they did’nt end up committing acts of evil, if a home is an empty shell it must surely have a great effect on a young child the parents are not fit to have children.
- Chris, Wirral UK, 13/3/2010 10:47
The parents should have been sterilised
- jane, penzance, 13/3/2010 10:45
Nasty old people were nasty young people, it’s as simple as that.
- Aber, Lincolnshire, 13/3/2010 08:33
Yes, that’s often true but the point here is what makes them nasty in the first place, nature, nurture or a combination of the two?
Blame the parents by all means as it is 100% their fault but do not try to blame movies like Child’s Play. That is crass ignorance beyond belief
- Phil, London, UK, 13/3/2010 08:43
Actually, it isn’t ignorance. Viewing ‘Child’s Play’ seems to be a recurring trend in the case of violent children and adults. No one is suggesting that viewing the film will turn everyone into a psychopath, rather that combined with upbringing and environment, this film and many others like it can be a coarsening influence on the human psyche, especially as regards children, as it is a small, child like creature that is committing the acts of violence.
The question is, would these two have turned out differently if raised by a loving family? In my view, yes.
- Rebecca, Gloucester, UK, 13/3/2010 10:44
Nobody is ‘born evil’? Yeah, how about psychopaths or serial killers that have no conscience? You can’t grow one you know, you either have it or you don’t. NO amount of medication or therapy helps….
- Angela, Long Beach, California, USA, 13/3/2010 10:44
Not to detract from the severity of this appalling crime, but it was proven repeatedly that Venables NEVER saw the Child’s Play film. As one police officer commented at the time, ‘if you’re going to blame any film, it might as well be The Railway Children.’
Please Daily Mail, we all know your love of reporting on Video Nasties, but this has nothing to do with this case and serves as an inappropriately salacious anecdote in a piece which is actually uncharacteristically intelligent.
- Dominic, United Kingdom, 13/3/2010 10:43
How do we know that it is impossible to be born evil? All these comments saying it is obviously impossible how do you know????? I think their upbringing was a major part but perhaps evil people are born, it in the genes!!!
- Steve, Devon, 13/3/2010 10:39
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