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Channel 4 Bulger Killers

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JediJim · 05/02/2018 21:35

Channel 4 on now, The Bulger Killers was justice done?

Quite hard to watch, having to skip some of it. Some of the people involved in the case are being interviewed for the first time, including the police officers and solicitors.

Sir Trevor McDonald on Thursday is James Bulger: a mother’s story.

25 years on the case is still very disturbing, no real sense ever comes of it or so it seems.

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Glamourgates · 05/02/2018 21:40

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Springiscoming123 · 05/02/2018 21:43

the Norway case,im speechless no arrest

Springiscoming123 · 05/02/2018 21:44

surprised thought more would be watching here

GypsieQueen · 05/02/2018 21:44

I'm finding it hard to watch. I read Denise's book, 'I let him Go' and cried most of the way through. That poor lady, James' Dad Ralph and the rest of his family have gone through unimaginable suffering. Personally, I feel that those boys were not punished for their terrible crime and should have served many years in an adult prison.

FannyWisdom · 05/02/2018 21:45

Watching now.
Interesting to see Norway's approach.

buckbeak · 05/02/2018 21:46

I had to turn it off when they were playing the tapes, the bit about throwing the bricks and he kept getting back up SadSadSad it's just the most horrendous thing. They should still be locked up!

ASAS · 05/02/2018 21:47

Very rarely post but must say that to offer up the "emotional immaturity" science is an insult to 10 year olds everywhere.

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JediJim · 05/02/2018 21:47

Very much so Glamourgates. If this happened today, the boys would never be named. Distressing to watch but I also kind of feel that as a parent I have a duty to at least try watch it. Clearly all those involved in the case were emotionally effected by it. The suns Kelvin Mackenzie coming across very strongly.

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Oblomov18 · 05/02/2018 21:47

Watching it now. Difficult watching.

hahahaIdontgetit · 05/02/2018 21:48

Horrific, but at 10 years old they knew right from wrong, why else would they lie and cry?

I was at uni with the daughter of a woman who had dealings with the case. She was convinced that one was evil, and the other very easily led. She never even told her daughter which one she believed to be truly evil.

Springiscoming123 · 05/02/2018 21:49

i remember watching a programme about this and said there were parts of evidence that were to bad to make public,its jaw dropping what went on

i cant imagine what the jury went through,did they have a jury

buddhasbelly · 05/02/2018 21:49

@Springiscoming123 I think it's because there's a few different threads that have been started. Some in 30 days only and I think one in chat or aibu

Oblomov18 · 05/02/2018 21:50

I agree with the woman, just before the break, who said they may not have appreciated the ramifications, but they knew it was wrong, that this child wasn't going home to his mother.

How can you dispute that?

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JediJim · 05/02/2018 21:52

Does anyone remember the abduction story a few years back, a baby taken by two girls in a Primark store? Newcastle I think? The baby was thankfully retrieved but the intention wasn’t fully known. Scary that this can happen.

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Springiscoming123 · 05/02/2018 21:52

Very rarely post but must say that to offer up the "emotional immaturity" science is an insult to 10 year olds everywhere

agree my son knows whats right,what may hurt somebody,what would make somebody smile

Beansonapost · 05/02/2018 21:53

I wonder what the response would be today knowing what they know about venables?

Isn't he still an danger to children?

Springiscoming123 · 05/02/2018 21:55

shivers,they may be sat at home right now watching this,so im guessing any partners are not told who they really are

im guessing they are watched by the police etc

GypsieQueen · 05/02/2018 21:56

Poor Denise, looks so thin and frail in the clips. Ralph, James' Dad was drinking two bottles of whiskey per day to help numb the pain but even that didn't help. Those two boys/now men are pure evil. There has been so much effort put in to protect them and help them, but they were never punished for what they did which is insane. They should have been properly punished for what they did, but they were, in Denise's words and in my view, rewarded.

CookieDoughKid · 05/02/2018 21:56

Hi question humanity in cases5lime this. Sometimes I think some children are born evil. Utterly evil. Either they don't have the brains to computer the evil so therefore insane or they are well aware.

Oblomov18 · 05/02/2018 22:00

The programme has just finished. I was left feeling: 'Is that it'? The programme left me hanging, after not really addressing anything.

AuntieStella · 05/02/2018 22:02

I'm about to start watching on +1

PatchworkElmer · 05/02/2018 22:04

I was going to watch this tomorrow, but having read about the bricks I honestly can’t. It’s just unfathomable. James was only a little older than my DS is now. I’m welling up at the thought of that poor innocent boy and what he went through.

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JediJim · 05/02/2018 22:05

The solicitor Laurence Lee came across well, he was Venables solicitor. He seemed to have had a lot of sympathy for the Bulger family.

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RJnomore1 · 05/02/2018 22:10

It's a horrific thing. One of them appears to have been able to go on to lead a normal life with no reoffending and a relationship with a man who knows his history.

I think the other one gave up his right to anonymity with the child abuse images.

The Norway approach is interesting and it does lead to the question as to the purpose of our legal system? Rehabilitation or revenge?

I don't believe any punishment inflicted on them could make Denise Bulgern(sorry I know that's not her name now) feel even the least bit better.

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