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Petition to Stop Release of Jamie Bulger's Killers

Netlore Archive: Outdated email petition seeks to prevent the parole of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the murderers of two-year-old Jamie Bulger

Description: Email petition
Circulating since: January 2001
Status: Outdated


Email example contributed by Kris D., 25 Jan 2001:

Subject: FW: Please read and respond. If you have a small child, you will get angry at our legal system.

On February 12, 1993, a small boy who was to turn three in March was taken from a shopping mall in Liverpool by two 10 year old boys.

Jamie Bulger walked away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 and a half miles, along the way stopping every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his mummy. Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked him and threw stones at him and rubbed paint in his eyes and pushed batteries up his anus. They then left his beaten small body on the tracks so a train could run him over to hide the mess they had created. These two boys, even being boys understood what they did was wrong, hence trying to make it look like an accident. This week Lady Justice Butler-Sloss has awarded the two boys anonymity for the rest of their lives when they leave custody with new identities. We cannot let this happen. They will also leave early this year only serving just over half of their sentence. One paper even stated that Robert may go on to University. They are getting away with their crime. They need to pay, and we have to do something to make them pay for their horrific crime. They took Jamie's life violently away, and in return they get a new life.

Please add your name and location to the list and forward to friends and family. Please copy this email instead of forwarding so we do not get > at the beginning of sentences.

If you are the 200th person to sign please forward this email to cust.ser.cs@gtnet.gov.uk


Comments: Regardless of how much outrage it may inspire, you shouldn't bother forwarding this outdated message. The deed is done. Child murderers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were released from prison in June 2001, hammering the last nail in the coffin of this already useless email petition.

The above description of the horrid crime perpetrated by these youungsters is mostly accurate. As noted, the killers were given new identities upon their release and at last report were living anonymously in different parts of England.

Update: In late June 2006, a false rumor began circulating in Australia claiming that the accused murderer of an 8-year-old girl in Perth was, in fact, one of the Jamie Bulger killers relocated from England under an assumed name. Read more...


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Sources and further reading:

Jamie Bulger Killers Win Freedom
BBC News, 22 June 2001

Merseyside Anger Over Killers' Release
BBC News, 22 June 2001

The Death of James Bulger
CourtTV Crime Library


Last updated: 06/01/02


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