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Two leading psychologists claim that upbringing and online influences can play a huge part in how a young would-be murderer behaves

Denise Fergus has long been calling for an inquiry into the 1993 killing of her two-year-old son by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, and how the murderers were sentenced

Twisted Jon Venables, who murdered tot James Bulger in February 1993, reportedly bragged about how 'easy' it was to kidnap and kill the two-year-old whilst serving time in juvenile jail

Thirty-one years ago today, innocent toddler James Bulger was abducted and killed by two twisted schoolboys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, in Bootle, Merseyside

Jon Venables, alongside friend Robert Thompson, callously ended James Bulger's life on February 12, 1993. On the anniversary of the chilling death, The Mirror takes a look at what happened to the child killer

After being sent down for a minimum of twenty years for the brutal slaying of teen Brianna Ghey, sick killer Eddie Ratcliffe has been staying at the facility that once guarded Robert Thompson

Child killer Robert Thompson's mother, Ann, allegedly developed an obsession with his victim's mum, Denise Fergus, after he was locked up for James Bulger's murder

Child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables brutally tortured and murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993, and Thompson has since lived in an unknown location with a new identity

Despite vowing to prison staff that he would fight the parole rejection, Venables 41, who killed toddler James Bulger in 1993, missed this week’s appeal deadline

Bosses at Google said they will rid sick images of James Bulger from its platforms including YouTube after Denise Fergus demanded action

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson abducted, tortured, and murdered James Bulger, two, after leading him away in a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in February 1993

James Bulger's mum admitted she was feeling quite numb after her son's killer Jon Venables' had his freedom denied in a parole hearing yesterday

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Here are three reasons why James Bulger's killer Jon Venables had his bid for freedom rejected by a Parole Board and it means that he will spend at least two more years in jail

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson took toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool and brutally murdered him before trying to blame each other for their sick crimes

Jon Venables killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993 when he was 10 years old, and on hearing the earth-shattering news, his mother tried to explain her son's evil actions

Jon Venables, 41, who was just 10 when he brutally tortured and killed tiny two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, will now spend at least another two years in prison

Murdered toddler James Bulger's family have pleaded with the Parole Board not to release killer Jon Venables, with a decision on whether to release the killer delayed

Jon Venables, one of the killers of toddler James Bulger, will be told in two weeks if he is to be given parole and experts believe that if he is, it may include "the strictest conditions ever"

Jon Venables had a private hearing on November 14 and while the Parole Board's decision was due to be announced 10 to 14 days later, it has now been delayed until mid-December

The ex-Home Secretary has joined victim’s family’s calls for Venables to stay locked up after failing to appear at his own parole hearing

James Bulger’s father Ralph has hit out at a parole board for being "twisted" and "protecting" his son's killer Jon Venables after allowing him to not attend a hearing

Jon Venables who snatched little James Bulger from a shopping centre in Bootle on Merseyside in 1993 was due before the parole board this week

Venables, 41, was freed in 2001 from a life sentence for killing James Bulger, two, but was recalled to jail in 2010 and 2017 after being found with child abuse imagery

At the age of 10, Jon Venables snatched and murdered toddler James Bulger alongside pal Robert Thompson - and despite being released from prison, has been put behind bars again after being caught with sickening child abuse images