Lets talk about a cruel murder and boy A

I received an email from my colleague and the content is as below:

For His Memory

Do you remember February 1993 in England, when a young boy of 3 was taken from a Liverpool shopping centre by two 10-year-old boys? Jamie Bulger walked away from his mother for only a second; Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 and half miles, along the way stopping every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his mummy.

Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked him, threw stones at him, rubbed paint in his eyes, pushed batteries up his anus and cut his fingers off with scissors. Other mutilations were inflicted but not reported in the press.

N.B.:- Remember, a 3year old cannot possibly defend themselves against a 10 year old, let alone of 2 them.

What these two boys did was so horrendous that Jamie's mother was forbidden to identify his body. They then left his beaten small body on railway tracks so a train could run him over to hide the mess they had created. These two boys, even being boys, understood what they did was wrong, hence trying to make it look like an accident.

This week Lady Justice Butler-Sloss has awarded the two boys (now men), anonymity for the rest of their lives when they leave custody with new identities. They will also leave custody early only serving just over half of their sentence. They are being relocated to Australia to live out the rest of their lives. They disgustingly and violently took Jamie's life away and in return they each get a new life!Please..... If you feel as strongly as we do, (and if you haven't already signed this petition) that this is a grave Miscarriage of justice - Hit the forward button and add your name at the end, and send it to everyone you can!

I was so shocked and stunned by the cruelty shown by these 2 still small kids and then felt very2 curious to know more about this story and weather it is true or not. So I searched and googled. I then found out that the story is true, just that there are some added wrong info (they didn’t pushed batteries up his anus but they put it in his mouth and they didn’t cut his finger either) but most of the story is true. I read the whole story about how these kids were seen by other people and some even stopped them because they were curious but the 2 boys said that little Jamie is their brother. There is also a picture from CCTV showing 1 of the boys holding Jamie’s hand and lead him out from the mall. It was so heartbreaking to see that picture, to see how small is Jamie, just a small 3 year old boy, and knowing that he was brutalized not long after that shot was taken. I was breathing hard while reading the whole article from wikipedia and there are quite a few times when I felt like crying and I cant help myself from thinking, “ what if this happen to my child?”.

I was also curious at the 2 boys’ cruelty and wonder how they can kill a little kid like that. But then I read that they were both came from a broken family. One of them, (the cruelest one, the one that the juries said have no remorse) have 7 siblings and he’s the youngest and in his family fighting, kicking and hostility is a common thing His mother is an alcoholic while the father left when he was five. So, being the youngest, he’s the one who always been beaten by his siblings. No wonder he grows up to be a violent person and I guess he thinks that beating little boy is not a big deal. While the other boy, also from a broken family, the parents’ splits and they take turn taking care of the kids but the boy somehow become hyperactive and violent. He’s chocking kids at school and banging his head on the wall. I guess the biggest problem happen when these two violent kids become friends.

I also found out that there is a movie that was inspired from this true story. The movie called “boy A”.

It’s about one of the brutal kids (the 2 boys was referred to as boy A and boy B in court, boy A is the one that banging his head on the wall), how they become friends, kill some kid and end up got caught and send to jail. Then they were release early under probation because of good behavior but their identities were changed so that they can have a normal live. This story is about how boy A trying to survive a normal live outside the prison as an ex con with a history as a brutal killer at a young age.


I haven’t watched the movie but one of my colleague said to me before that these is a depressing movie and that’s why I don’t wanna watch it, I hate depressing movies. But now that I know about the real true story behind this movie, I’m a little curious. Maybe I will watch it someday.