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The Murder of James Bulger

12/02/2013 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Murder of James Bulger

The killing of a toddler in Liverpool 20 years ago that shocked  Britain

The killing of a toddler in Liverpool 20 years ago that shocked  Britain.

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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