Jamie Bulger Email Petition
Summary:Seriously outdated email petition requests that recipients "sign" and send the message to others in an attempt to prevent the release of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the boys who murdered toddler Jamie Bulger in 1993(
Full commentary below.)
Status:Pointless - Venables and Thompson have already been released.
Update (June 2006):A
new rumour claims that the person who raped and murdered a young child in Perth Western Australia is actually one of the boys who killed Jamie Bulger
[Read more].
Example:(Submitted, March 2006)
Do you remember February 1993 when a young 3 yr old was taken from Liverpool, United Kingdom,by two 10-year-old boys. Jamie Bulger walked away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson.
They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 and a half miles, along the way stopping every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his mummy.
Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked him, threw stones at him, rubbed paint in his eyes and pushed batteries up his anus.
It was actually worse than this . What these two boys did was so horrendous that Jamie's mother was forbidden to identify his body.
They then left his beaten small body on the tracks so a train could run him over to hide the mess they had created. These two boys, even being boys, understood what they did was wrong, hence trying to make it look like an accident.
This week Lady Justice Butler-Slosshas awarded the two boys anonymity for the rest of their lives when they leave custody with new identities.
They will also leave early this year only serving just over half of their sentence. They are being relocated to Australia to live out the rest of their lives. They disgustingly and violently took Jamie's life away in return they each get a new life.
Please ... if you feel, as we do, that this is a grave miscarriage of justice .. copy the entire email ..then add your name at the end, and send it to everyone you can.
If you are the 500th person to sign, please forward this e-mail to:
[address removed] and attention it to Lady Justice Butler-Sloss.
Then start the list over again and send to your friends and family.
The Love-Bug virus took less that 72 hours to reach the world. I hope this one does as well.
We need to protect our family and friends from creatures like Robert and Jon. One day they may be living next door to you and your small children, without your knowledge
[391 names and area addresses removed]
Commentary:
This email petition is now so far out of date that sending it onward is totally pointless. Although the events described in the email are factual, the boys who committed this horrendous crime were released in 2001, so the continuation of this petition in 2006 and beyond is simply a waste of time and bandwidth.
In February 1993 Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were both ten years old at the time, tortured and killed toddler Jamie Bulger and left his battered body on railway tracks.
At trial, the boys were sentenced to an indefinite period of detainment with a minimum of 8 years. Soon after, this was increased to a minimum of 10 years. However, the perceived leniency of this sentence created a great deal of public debate in the UK. A 300,000-signature petition organized by the Sun newspaper called for the boys' time in custody to be increased. In 1995, the sentence was increased to a minimum of fifteen years. In 1997, this increased sentence was reversed when the Court of Appeal found that it was unlawful. In 1999, the original ten-year minimum sentence was reduced to 8 years after lawyers acting for the boys appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.
Finally, in June 2001, the boys were released from custody under stringent conditions and with new identities. An open-ended injunction in place when the boys were released prevents the publication of any information that could lead to their identification or whereabouts. Although unconfirmed "sightings" of the boys have been reported, their current whereabouts remains hidden from the general public.
Some versions of the petition (including the one above) claim that the boys were to be relocated to Australia. However, given that the boys are to remain indefinitely under the supervision of UK authorities as a condition of release, this seems unlikely. It is also highly improbable that the Australian government would have agreed to such a relocation.
Given the horrific nature of this crime, it is not surprising that the original sentence and subsequent early release of Venables and Thompson has caused such outrage, not only in the UK, but in the rest of the world as well. Originally, this email petition was undoubtedly a heart-felt expression of this outrage.
However, regardless of any intrinsic value that the petition might have once possessed, one fact is paramount. Rightly or wrongly, these boys were released and relocated years ago, and no amount of names on an email petition is going to change this. The continued circulating of this message will serve no good purpose.
You can read extensive information about the Jamie Bulger case via the links below:
The Death of James Bulger
James Bulger - Wikipedia
An Earlier Example:(Submitted, 2003)
Do you remember February 1993 when a young 3 yr old was taken from a
shopping mall in Liverpool by two 10-year-old boys. Jamie Bulger walked
away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand and
led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on
a walk for over 2 and a half miles, along the way stopping every now and
again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his
mommy. Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked
him, threw stones at him, rubbed paint in his eyes and pushed batteries up
his anus. It was actually worse than this... What these two boys did was so
horrendous that Jamie's mother was forbidden to identify his body. They
then left his beaten small body on the tracks so a train could run him over
to hide the mess they had created. These two boys, even being boys,
understood what they did was wrong, hence trying to make it look like an
accident.
This week Lady Justice Butler-Sloss has awarded the two boys anonymity for
the rest of their lives when they leave custody with new identities. We
cannot let this happen. They will also leave early this year only serving
just over half of their sentence. One paper even stated that Robert may go
on to University. They are getting away with their crime. They disgustingly
and violently took Jamie's life away - in return they get a new life.
Please read it carefully.... then add your name at the end... and send it
to everyone you can! Please add your name and location to the list and send
it to friends and family. Please copy this e-mail (highlight text, right
click, copy and paste into a new email) instead of forwarding so we do not
get arrows at the beginning of the sentences. If you are the 220th person
to sign, please forward this e-mail to [*email address removed*] and
attention it to Lady Justice Butler-Sloss. Then start the list over again
and send to your friends and family. The Love-Bug virus took less that 72
hours to reach the world. I hope this one does as well. We need to protect
our family and friends from creatures like Robert and Jon. One day they may
be living next to you and your small children, without your knowledge. If
Robert and Jon could be so evil at 10 years old, imagine what they could do
as adults!
[195 names and area addresses removed]
Write-up by Brett M.Christensen
