16 January 2023 , 08:28
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An expert in the James Bulger murder has revealed a new theory on the murder of the little boy in 1993.
James was two when Jon Venables and Robert Thompson abducted him from a shopping centre before torturing and murdering him.
Some have suggested over the years the pair were motivated by a sexual element.
However Professor Paul Britton, who was on the case in 1993, has told James’ mother Denise Fergus he does not think Venables and Robert Thompson’s attack on two-year-old James was sexually motivated.
Instead he told her: “They were murderers, plain and simple”.
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Denise said about the revelations: “For 30 years there were lots of details about James’s death that I have wanted to avoid, but I finally felt strong enough to hear it.
Jon Venables murdered the little boy with Robert Thompson in 1993 (PA)“Hearing it from someone trained and impartial was an important and healing moment.
“He also told me in no uncertain terms that Venables and Thompson had ‘no proper sexual involvement with James’.
“He said James was ‘injured in all sorts of different ways and whilst he might have been injured in a way that would have included, if you like, all of his body, there wasn’t what you would call an adult sexual attack on him.
“While I have no doubt Venables is now a sexual deviant and a massive danger to society, it was a great peace of mind to know that James’s murder was not sexually driven.
James Bulger in 1992 - around a year before his death“He was clear that once Venables and Thompson were named as possible suspects, in the frame, he knew very quickly that they were guilty.
“And whilst others were blind-sided and distracted by the fact that they were such physically small children, which some thought meant that it was impossible they could have committed such a crime, his brain quickly defined them as murderers.
“Just hearing that fact alone, I felt something fundamental shift in me.
“That has been such a block over the years. The excuse that they were ‘only children’ themselves who didn’t deserve the adult labels of ‘murderers’ has always been hard for me to bear.”
Last month it was reported could walk free from prison within weeks as he awaited a crucial hearing.
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The evil young killer - now aged 40 - is currently behind bars but is expected to be given a date with the Parole Board soon that could secure his release.
Venables has reoffended twice since being convicted of abducting and brutally murdering two-year-old in 1993.
He was sent back to jail in 2010 and 2017 after being caught with child sex abuse images on his computer.