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World Service,12 Feb 2013,9 mins

The Murder of James Bulger

Witness History

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In February 1993, a two-year-old boy called James Bulger was murdered in Liverpool. CCTV pictures showed two 10-year-olds leading James from a shopping centre towards his brutal death on a railway embankment. Witness speaks to Superintendant Albert Kirby, the officer in charge of one of the most sensitive investigations in British police history. PHOTO: Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the killers of James Bulger. (Press Association)

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