Vintage photo of Funeral of James Bulger.

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Venables and Thompson, both now 40, remain the youngest people to stand trial for murder in the UK. The pair have new identities but only Thompson has remained out of custody since their release in 2001.

Jon Venables: Woman who posted picture said to show killer avoids jail". BBC News. 24 January 2020. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020 . Retrieved 19 February 2020. Tina Malone avoids jail for contempt of court over Bulger killer Facebook post". The Rhyl Journal. Press Association. 13 March 2019. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019 . Retrieved 3 April 2019– via rhyljournal.co.uk. Thompson and Venables took Bulger to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, around 1⁄ 4 mile (400 metres) from the New Strand Shopping Centre, where they dropped him on his head, and he suffered injuries to his face. The boys joked about pushing Bulger into the canal. [9] [17] An eyewitness said that when he saw Bulger at the canal, the boy was "crying his eyes out". [18] The boys went on a 2 + 1⁄ 2-mile (4-kilometre) walk across Liverpool; they were seen by around 38 people, but most bystanders did nothing to intervene. [18] [19] Two people challenged Thompson and Venables, but they either claimed that Bulger was their brother, or that he was lost, and that they were taking him to a police station. [20] At one point, the boys took Bulger into a pet shop, from which they were ejected. [21] But James' birthday this year on March 16 will not be a moment of sadness - but one with a positive legacy. During his hearing, the court heard that upon his arrest he told cops in the police car: "This is my own fault. I have let people down again.

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Laing, Aislinn (10 March 2010). "Bulger killer Jon Venables posed 'trivial' risk to the public, said psychiatrist". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. Archived from the original on 13 March 2010 . Retrieved 10 March 2010. It also offers a bizarre insight into the minds of Venables — who thought baby James was growing inside him — and Thompson — who thought he could smell his victim’s “baby smell” after he’d killed him. After they left the scene his body was cut in half by a train, and found two days later. How were Robert Thompson and Jon Venables caught?

The report stated: "Mr Venables was engaging positively in intensive interventions and these were likely to continue for several months, requiring a period of consolidation on completion." Speaking at the time, he said: "(Venables) is 'uniquely notorious' and there is a strong possibility, if not a probability, that if his identity were known he would be pursued resulting in grave and possibly fatal consequences.Billington, Michael (9 May 2009). " Monsters". The Guardian (theatre review). London, UK. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014 . Retrieved 11 March 2010.