Family of Slain Toddler Tells of Possible Revenge
As politicians, police and psychiatrists searched for clues to why two schoolboys brutally murdered 2-year-old James Bulger, his grief-stricken family swore revenge if his 11-year-old killers are ever freed.
The parents of the murderers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, feared reprisals and began living at secret addresses, their lawyer said.
After a three-week trial, the boys were sentenced to the juvenile equivalent of a life sentence, but Bulger’s family said no punishment was too harsh.
“If they don’t stay in jail forever, if they ever get out, we will be waiting for them and if we get hold of them we’ll . . . kill them,” the child’s uncle, Jim Bulger, told a television phone-in show.
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