were aged 12 at the time of the murder and are believed to be the youngest defendants convicted of the crime in the UK since Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both aged 11, were found guilty in ...

In 1993, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson – both 10 years old at the time – abducted two-year-old James Bulger from a shopping mall near Liverpool. The boys, who were playing hooky from school, then ...

McEwan also claims that Thompson boasted he had got off lightly with James's murder. Thompson and Jon Venables, also now 18, abducted, tortured and murdered two-year-old James on a railway line in ...

The Mail on Sunday has learned that, using his new identity, Jon Venables ... level move has infuriated James's family. Venables and Robert Thompson abducted their two-year-old son from a shopping ...

Britain’s youngest killers murderers since James Bulger’s killers have been handed longer sentences today after judges considered an appeal.