James Bulger Documentary

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gaz1234

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5,233 posts

219 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Channel 5

Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Terribly sad stuff.

Two vile pieces of st.

Pit Pony

8,546 posts

121 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Why bring it all up again?

gtidriver

3,344 posts

187 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Lets hope some one shuts up Venables permanently when he brags about who he is next time he's pissed up.

Deerfoot

4,902 posts

184 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Too depressing to watch to be honest.

Kitchski

6,515 posts

231 months

Sunday 28th September 2014
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Pit Pony said:
Why bring it all up again?
This. I know he should never be forgotten, but bringing it all up again won't fix anything. I can't watch stuff like this, especially on that subject. It's harrowing.

Pit Pony

8,546 posts

121 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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Kitchski said:
Pit Pony said:
Why bring it all up again?
This. I know he should never be forgotten, but bringing it all up again won't fix anything. I can't watch stuff like this, especially on that subject. It's harrowing.
The only thing I wonder is, could it happen again? If you drive through parts of Bootle you see gangs of young kids, roaming and hanging around, and looking feral, and you know that parental responsibility is a sadly lacking commodity.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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I watched this and didn't realise or had forgotten just how sadistic they had been to the kid.



gaz1234

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219 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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If or when their identity gets out, do you think they will be in the st?

bazza white

3,558 posts

128 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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Their identities have got out several times.

Edited by bazza white on Monday 29th September 21:59

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

198 months

Monday 29th September 2014
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gaz1234 said:
If or when their identity gets out, do you think they will be in the st?
They have been out for years - one went back inside for having lots of kiddie porn on his PC... And he has turned into a heavy drinker and drung taker, he keeps finding himself in situations where he tells people who he really is /guilt /depression "look at me" or whatever his reason is.

The other one which everyone believed was the brains behind it and the more brutal appears to be totally reformed (or acting to stay out of jail).

I remember it at the time well but didn't really comprehend exactly what they had done - I've seen the documentaries since and read up a fair bit on what they actually did suffice to say I didn't finish reading it. Those two should have been locked up for life instead let out after what 6-7ywars with all their lives in front of them to live.

clonmult

10,529 posts

209 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Pit Pony said:
Kitchski said:
Pit Pony said:
Why bring it all up again?
This. I know he should never be forgotten, but bringing it all up again won't fix anything. I can't watch stuff like this, especially on that subject. It's harrowing.
The only thing I wonder is, could it happen again? If you drive through parts of Bootle you see gangs of young kids, roaming and hanging around, and looking feral, and you know that parental responsibility is a sadly lacking commodity.
My sister works around there, from what she's said you're definitely speaking the truth frown

Halmyre

11,193 posts

139 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Welshbeef said:
They have been out for years - one went back inside for having lots of kiddie porn on his PC... And he has turned into a heavy drinker and drung taker, he keeps finding himself in situations where he tells people who he really is /guilt /depression "look at me" or whatever his reason is.

The other one which everyone believed was the brains behind it and the more brutal appears to be totally reformed (or acting to stay out of jail).

I remember it at the time well but didn't really comprehend exactly what they had done - I've seen the documentaries since and read up a fair bit on what they actually did suffice to say I didn't finish reading it. Those two should have been locked up for life instead let out after what 6-7ywars with all their lives in front of them to live.
But what sort of life? One on drink and/or drugs, the other forever wondering how long he's got before someone realises who he is and phones the press/organises a mob/glasses him down the pub. I don't have any sympathy for either of them, but I don't envy them either.

Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

174 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Paul Britton / Brittain was the psychologist on the case and his books - Jigsaw Man and Picking up the Pieces are well worth a read.

grim reading in places but very interesting whether or not profiling works is another matter but I thought the accounts of the various cases he worked on riveting