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A TEENAGER who sadistically tortured a grandmother before killing her, aged just 14, has been released.Sarah Davey was locked up indefinitely, in 1999

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

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

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

KILLER kid Jon Venables will make a bid for freedom today - more than 30 years after murdering two-year-old James Bulger.But how he and Robert Thompso

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

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

As we approach the 30th anniversary of James Bulger trial’s start on November 1, 1993, the Mirror’s former chief feature writer Anton Antonowicz recalls that chilling day when Jon Venables and Robert Thompson became the youngest in Britain to be tried for murder

A new Channel 5 documentary, James Bulger: The Trial, is re-examining the trial of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were convicted of killing toddler James Bulger

Denise Fergus only attended one day of the trial of her son's killers as she was pregnant - now she is finally able to start processing the full facts as new TV documentary airs

Jon Venables, who brutally murdered toddler James in 1993, faces a crucial hearing 'within weeks', which would see him back on the streets if parole is granted

The country was left shocked after Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnapped little James Bulger and tortured and killed him in Bootle, Merseyside in 1993

A CAREER criminal who discovered the body of James Bulger on a railway line when he was just 14 has died in a jail cell.James Riley, 44, "went off th

Denise Fergus was deflated when informed of a parole hearing for Jon Venables, who murdered her son James. Now she is urging officials to keep him locked up forever