I Let Him Go: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger- updated for the 30th anniversary, in memory of James: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger

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To say I've enjoyed this book sounds so wrong, but I thought it to be well written and informative, my only criticism would be that it is only Ralph's story and there are others obviously deeply inflicted by the tragic events of that time.

Pavia, Will (8 March 2010). " 'It was like my son had been taken again' ". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010 . Retrieved 11 March 2010. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)

Paterson, Stewart (26 November 2017). "James Bulger's father demands son's killer Jon Venables is stripped of anonymity". Archived from the original on 11 April 2019 . Retrieved 30 August 2020– via www.nzherald.co.nz. Harris, Paul; Bright, Martin (24 June 2001). "The secret meetings that set James's killers free". The Guardian. London, UK. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. There is a distinct sense that the government also had an interest in proving to the world that their rehabilitation experiment on these kids worked and thus criminal offences and endless parole breaches that they committed as adults were completely ignored and the very worst offenses that couldn't be ignored were deliberately covered up from the public and if it weren't for the media, the world and James' family would never know about it.

On 14 March 2008, an appeal to set up a Red Balloon Learner Centre in Merseyside in memory of James Bulger was launched by his mother and Esther Rantzen. [80] [81] A memorial garden in Bulger's memory was created in Sacred Heart Primary School in his hometown of Kirkby, the school he would have been expected to attend had he not been murdered. [9] In March 2010, a call was made by England's Children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to twelve. She said that the killers of James Bulger should have undergone "programmes" to help turn their lives around, rather than being prosecuted. The Ministry of Justice rejected the call, saying that children over the age of ten knew the difference "between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing". [82] In 1994 Denise splits from Ralph. She later remarries in 1998 when she meets Stuart Fergus. Together they have two sons. Ralph remarries and has three daughters with his second wife. The James Bulger Memorial Trust Thompson and Venables took Bulger to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, around 1⁄ 4 mile (400 metres) from the New Strand Shopping Centre, where they dropped him on his head, and he suffered injuries to his face. The boys joked about pushing Bulger into the canal. [9] [17] An eyewitness said that when he saw Bulger at the canal, the boy was "crying his eyes out". [18] The boys went on a 2 + 1⁄ 2-mile (4-kilometre) walk across Liverpool; they were seen by around 38 people, but most bystanders did nothing to intervene. [18] [19] Two people challenged Thompson and Venables, but they either claimed that Bulger was their brother, or that he was lost, and that they were taking him to a police station. [20] At one point, the boys took Bulger into a pet shop, from which they were ejected. [21]

Schmidt, William E. (24 February 1993). "Liverpool Tries to Reconcile Murder and a Boy Next Door". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017. CCTV: Does it work?". BBC. 13 August 2002. Archived from the original on 31 July 2010 . Retrieved 15 April 2023. James Bulger murder". guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022 . Retrieved 25 April 2005. The essence of who James Bulger actually was shone through in this book. I never knew he was a cheeky, full on, charismatic little boy.