'HE'S MY SON NOT THEIRS'
James Bulger’s mum Denise Fergus in tears watching ‘too sympathetic’ Channel 5 documentary after bosses refused to tell her what it revealed
JAMES Bulger's mum was left sobbing after watching a Channel 5 documentary on her two-year-old son's gruesome murder.
Denise Fergus has hit out at TV bosses for failing to consult her over the show and said she was forced to learn new details of the killing at the same time as millions of viewers.
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James Bulger: The New Revelations aired last night and featured fresh information on James's killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
The pair - then aged ten - shocked the nation when they abducted the toddler and mutilated him before leaving his body on railway tracks in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.
Denise told : "I didn’t know what to expect. I was on pins all day before [the broadcast]. I didn’t know what I was going to see or hear in it.
"I felt like I was an outsider looking in on someone else’s story. I was fuming. He is my son, not theirs, and I was not allowed to see what they were saying about him.
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"I feel like they consider him their property. He is not a property. He was a little boy and he is mine.”
Last night's show heard the chilling moment Venables sobs as he admits murdering little James in a police interview.
In the haunting police interview, the murderer tells the officer and his mum he had been at the Bootle Strand shopping centre on the day James was killed, adding: "But we never got a kid mum. We never, we never got a kid."
The clip - played at his trial in 1993 - then hears the officer referring to a conversation he had with his mum. He says: "What was it you told us?"
Weeping, Venables replies: "That I killed James."
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It also revealed parole board statements by the killers including Thompson's boast that his life was better because he killed James.
Denise said she has complained to show bosses and believes the documentary was too "sympathetic" towards the killers.
She is also calling for an inquiry into how they got access to the parole papers - claiming her own legal team were blocked from viewing them.
And she revealed she was forced to leave the room as the harrowing details of James's death were revealed, saying: "It got too much in the end."
Denise also tweeted her disgust for the show when it aired, saying: "I've had to watch the disgusting @channel5_tv @caravan__media documentary, to know what I'm having to deal with, I can honestly say I'm upset, fuming with the 1 sided sympathy with the evil killers of my beautiful son who was only 2 yrs old when they abducted & murdered him."
What did the doc say?
The documentary explored the home life of both Venables and Thompson, who was described by experts as an "urban feral child".
He revealed in his parole statement his dad would beat his mum in front of his family and said he would stay out for as long as he could to avoid going home.
The killer claimed his dad once made him strip naked when chocolates vanished from the Christmas tree one year and threatened to chop his penis off with scissors.
Experts claimed his home life could have led to his actions and revealed he had a baby brother who looked just like James.
One said "everything went to the new baby" - speculating whether there was connection between a child who had experienced a rejection through the arrival of another child.
Venables and Thompson were just ten years old when they became the country’s youngest murderers in 250 years.
Little James was led away by the depraved duo while his mother was in a butcher's shop at the busy shopping centre.
The pair took James to a railway line and tortured, beat and sexually assaulted him.
They poured modelling paint into his eyes, stoned him and clubbed him with bricks, before leaving him on the railway line to be hit by a train.
Venables was so haunted by the murder he thought he had "baby smell" on his clothes, the show claims.
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James Bulger's killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables break down when realising they've been caught
Thompson, now 36, also said he is a “better person” thanks to his years in prison — but apologised for murdering the two-year-old.
In statements that convinced the Parole Board to free him in 2001, he said: “I do feel aware I am now a better person and have had a better life and a better education than if I had not committed the murder.
“There is obviously an irony to this but it is part of my remorseful feelings as well.
“I, personally, wish Mr and Mrs Bulger and their families to know that I am desperately sorry for what I did, and aware of the enormity of what I did.”
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Thompson has not re-offended since being released on licence when he was 18 years old.
In February of this year Venables was jailed for 40 months after he admits to possessing more than 1,000 indecent images of children.
Sun Online has contacted Channel 5 for comment.
James Bulger: The New Revelations doc reveals statements made by Robert Thompson, the accomplice to Jon Venables in two-year-old's murder
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