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Denise Fergus offered her support after two boys, 12, were convicted of hacking Shawn Seesahai’s to death - becoming the youngest murderers in the UK since James Bulger was killed by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993

Denise Fergus says there are still 'so many unanswered questions that haunt' her about James's murder as she demands 'the mistakes of the past are not repeated'

Denise Fergus has tirelessly campaign-ed for a public inquiry for the last seven years. And now MPs will finally address what she calls a “catalogue of failings” in the handling of her two-year-old son’s murder

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 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

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

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, 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

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

Robert Thompson was jailed alongside Jon Venables for the callous murder of toddler James Bulger and since his release from a young offenders institution, it seems he has kept under the radar with his new identity

The mother of murdered James Bulger spoke after it was revealed killer Venables' legal team feared an open session would cause him 'emotional stress' as he bids for freedom again

Today the Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales, Caroline Corby, said the panel had to respect a long-standing legal order that bans the public identification of Jon Venables

Three decades after the tragic murder of her son, James Bulger, Denise Fergus and husband Stuart mark 25 years together by renewing their wedding vows, surrounded by love

The England and Liverpool football heroes appear to sing on a track about murder recorded by a gun thug in his prison cell but in fact they have been victims of digital editing

James Bulger was two years old when he was snatched from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993. The abductors – Jon Venables and his friend Robert Thompson, then murdered him

Denise Fergus, the mother of James Bulger, is convinced the twisted killer remains a danger to the public and should not be freed at his parole hearing in November