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Anyone heard of this England case: School age children kill a schoolmate and was attributed to tv violence?

The children eventually got new identities because of the uproar in England. I believe it happened a few years ago or so.

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1. You are thinking of the case where the murder victim was a child called Jamie Bulger. Google his name and you will find a lot of information on his young killers.
2. they stole the much younger boy from a shopping centre and then tortured and killed him. this was more than fifteen years ago, mind you. it was reported at the time that the boys were separated from each other as part of their rehabilitation. what else could you do with kids like this but try to reform them?
3. Murder of James Bulger James Bulger Born16 March 1990 Liverpool, Merseyside, England Died12 February 1993 (aged 2) Walton, Liverpool, England Cause of deathMurdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a victim of abduction and murder in Bootle, England, in 1993. His killers were two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (both born in August 1982)[1]. James disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre, where he had been with his mother Denise, on 12 February 1993 and his mutilated body was found on a railway line at Bootle on 14 February. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, then 10, were charged with James's murder on 22 February and remanded in custody. On 24 November 1993, the two boys, by then 11, were found guilty of murder at Preston Crown Court. The trial judge sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure, with a recommendation that they should be kept in custody for "very, very many years to come". Shortly after the trial, Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years, which would have made them eligible for release in February 2003 at the age of twenty. (They were charged with Bulger's murder on 22 February 1993.) The public and popular press felt the sentence was too lenient, and the editors of The Sun newspaper handed a petition bearing 300,000 signatures to Home Secretary Michael Howard, in a bid to increase the time spent by both boys in custody. This campaign was successful, and in 1995 Howard announced that the boys would be kept in custody for a minimum of fifteen years, meaning that they would not be considered for release until February 2008, by which time they would be twenty-five years of age. In 1997, the Court of Appeal ruled that Howard's decision to set a fifteen year tariff was unlawful, and the Home Secretary lost his power to set minimum terms for life-sentence prisoners under eighteen-years-old. The High Court and European Court of Human Rights have ruled that politicians can no longer decide how long a life sentence prisoner can remain behind bars. Thompson and Venables were released on a life licence in June 2001, after serving eight years, when a parole hearing concluded that public safety would not be threatened by their rehabilitation.[2] An injunction was imposed after the trial preventing the publication of details about the boys, for fear of reprisals. The injunction remained in force following their release, so their new identities and locations could not be published. The 2007 film Boy A was inspired by this case and the release of Thompson and Venables. Contents [hide] 1 The murder 2 The trial 3 Appeal and release 4 Subsequent controversies 5 2008 memorial appeal 6 See also 7 References 8 External links [edit]The murder Police officers who worked on the case revealed that Venables and Thompson had made several attempts throughout the day of 12 February 1993 to abduct a child. They were seen on the shopping centre's CCTV casually observing other children, selecting a target. Before the abduction in the shopping centre, the boys had attempted to walk off with another child. They were overheard in a store talking about "taking one of the two" and the mother of the two children thought they were attempting to steal some goods. It was later reported by one of the boys that they were planning to take one of the two children, lead them outside and push the child in front of the passing cars causing an accident on the busy road. One officer commented that Bulger's killing was not simply an opportunist crime: it had been systematically planned. "They knew exactly what they were doing. They had planned... from the outset... to go and kill a young boy." CCTV still of James Bulger being kidnapped by Venables and Thompson (above Bulger), recorded on shopping centre CCTV That same afternoon, James Bulger (often mentioned as "Jamie Bulger" in press reports, although never called "Jamie" by his family), from nearby Kirkby, went with his mother Denise to a nearby shopping centre. While inside a shop, Mrs Bulger realised her son had disappeared. He had wandered out of the shop on his own and was spotted by the two boys. They approached him, spoke to him and won his confidence, before taking him by the hand and leading him out of the precinct. This moment was captured on a CCTV camera at 15:39. The boys took Bulger on a two and a half mile (four km) circuitous walk. They led him to a canal, where he sustained injuries to his head and face, after apparently being dropped to the ground. Later, a witness reported seeing Bulger being kicked in the ribs by one of the boys, to prod him along. During the walk, the boys were seen by thirty-eight people. Some reported there was bruising on Bulger's face, while others reported that he was laughing, the boys seemingly alternating between hurting and distracting him