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<\/p>\nKILLER kid Jon Venables will make a bid for freedom today – more than 30 years after murdering two-year-old James Bulger.<\/p>\n
But how he and Robert Thompson, both ten, were caught following James's 1993 murder was the result of "intuition" from a local dad.<\/p>\n
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Alex Radnor-Boulton had worked for an electricity company and knew the area around New Strand Shopping Centre where James was abducted.<\/p>\n
He had seen CCTV of the trio coming out of the centre in Bootle, Merseyside, and pondered which routes they may have gone.<\/p>\n
He told the Liverpool Echo in 2021: " I knew if he was coming out that exit, if they're going up there they'd want to get off Stanley Road straight away and turn up Park Street.<\/p>\n
"And then the other road was just intuition."<\/p>\n
The dad, now in his 70s, told residents who had security cameras to check their footage before deciding to go up to AMEX.<\/p>\n He said: "(By) Some intuition I just thought I wonder if the kids might have walked up here."<\/p>\n Alex noticed "two huge white cameras" outside their premises and asked workers to check the footage.<\/p>\n It turned out the cameras had caught three young people and cops realised they looked "much smaller" than on the shopping centre CCTV.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n He recalled the boss of AMEX ringing him, saying: "'I've got them, the two young lads with the kid on my camera, they're walking up towards Breeze Hill'."<\/p>\n "About three days later he rang me back and he said 'pat yourself on the back they've found him'."<\/p>\n Jim Fitzsimmons, a Merseyside police detective working on the case, said: "That really changed everything.<\/p>\n "When a friend of the Venables family noticed paint on Jon's coat, we'd already opened our minds to the possibility these boys could be as young as 10."<\/p>\n It was on a railway near Breeze Hill where James's tortured and mutilated body was found in February 1993.<\/p>\n In November that year, the pair were found guilty of abducting and murdering James – making them the\u00a0youngest convicted murderers\u00a0in Britain for 250 years.<\/p>\n They were both locked up aged just ten and freed at 18.<\/p>\n Both were given new identities and have been given anonymity.<\/p>\n A two-day appeal this week will determine if\u00a0Venables, now 41,\u00a0can be released from prison after being locked up for possessing depraved child abuse images.<\/p>\n He has been recalled to jail twice since he was first released.<\/p>\n In 2010, he was caged for three years for possessing indecent images of children.<\/p>\n He returned to jail in November 2017 after more sickening images were found.<\/p>\n He was denied parole in 2020.<\/p>\n Despite this, the killer could be released in just weeks if the parole board give the go-ahead.<\/p>\n Parents\u00a0Ralph Bulger\u00a0and\u00a0Denise Fergus\u00a0have given statements to the Parole Board on\u00a0why they think Venables should remain in jail\u00a0\u2014 but are not allowed to attend the hearing.<\/p>\n So Ralph urged other parents to do what they can to keep Venables behind bars.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThis is no longer just about my beautiful boy James.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is about every innocent young child just like him who has the right to be protected from the horrors of a monster like Venables. <\/p>\n "I\u2019m begging the ordinary families of\u00a0this country\u00a0to make their voice heard today.<\/p>\n \u201cI want them to say no to releasing a violent predatory killer \u2014 to make as much noise as possible and to shout loud and clear that Venables must remain behind bars.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/newspress-collage-24728028-1699951461538.jpg\")
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