![]() ![]() I understand why people think like that to say they are evil is a way of coping with the fact that two 10-year-old boys committed murder. ![]() “When I asked why they did it, I was told they were evil. So why did he want to make a film about James’s murder? “I was 12 when James was murdered and I was absolutely haunted by it – just like everyone else,” he says. And so the two 10-year-olds head off with the boy they will soon kill.Įly Solan as Jon Venables in Detainment. But the other woman says she can’t because her dog doesn’t like children. She asks the other woman to keep an eye on her daughter while she takes them to the station. To Walton Street police station, the boys lie. In another of the film’s most unbearable moments, two women are standing outside a corner shop when they see the two boys walking the toddler. ![]() Robert and Jon, each being questioned in different police stations, blame the other for hitting James with a brick. But there is enough in what Lambe has dramatised from the boys’ interviews to haunt any viewer. There’s no graphic violence,” says Lambe. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, James’s father, Ralph Bulger, said he has seen many documentaries and news reports about the murder in the past 26 years and become inured to them, but “to make a film so sympathetic to James’s killers is devastating”. James’s mother, Denise Fergus, argued as much earlier this month on ITV’s Loose Women: “He’s just trying to big his career up and big himself up by someone else’s grief,” she said. ![]()
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