SPA- Chasing Pavements -9

In today's lesson, we decided what our piece is going to be about.. for good. We have decided that we are going to base our work around the Jamie Bulger murder case. To build up the basis for when we start devising our piece, we decided what characters we are going to have in our piece, we all decided that we could have things that represent / symbolize Jamie, but none of us would ever present our selves to be him, as it is disrespectful and unnecessary, the same goes for his death. The characters that we are going to include so far are John Venables (played as a child and as a adult), Robert Thompson (played as a child and as a adult), Denise Bulger (now Denise Fergus) and the police officer that interview the two killers. We spent the rest of this lesson doing research into this horrific story;

On Friday 12th of February 1993, James Patrick Bulger (who was only two years old) was abducted from the New Strand Shopping Centre, by John Venables and Robert Thompson (both were 10 years old).  Thompson and Venables then led James away from his mother who was in a butchers shop that James had been stood outside of.  to The boys took Bulger on a meandering 2.5-mile walk across Liverpool to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal where he was dropped on his head and suffered injuries to his face. They left James, perhaps to go and look for another victim, as there original plan was to abduct someone and push them into ongoing traffic. James followed the boys, walking with them, whilst they were seen by 38 people. Eventually the boys arrived in the village of Walton, and with Walton Lane police station across the road facing them, they hesitated and led Bulger up a steep bank to a railway line near the disused Walton & Anfield railway station, where they began torturing him. At the trial it was established that at this location, one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint, which they had shoplifted earlier, into Bulger's left eye. They kicked and stomped on him, and threw bricks and stones at him. Batteries were placed in Bulger's mouth. Police believed some batteries may have been inserted into his anus. The bottom half of him was found naked, which revealed that his foreskin forcefully pulled back. Finally, a 22-pound iron bar, was dropped on him.  Dr. Alan Williams, the case's pathologist, stated that Bulger suffered so many injuries - 42 in total - that none could be isolated as the fatal blow.Before they left him, the boys laid Bulger across the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, in the hope that a train would hit him and make his death appear to be an accident. After Bulger's killers left the scene, his body was cut in half by a train. Bulger's severed body was discovered two days later, on 14 February, by four young boys who were playing around the tracks. A forensic pathologist testified that he had died before he was struck by the train.

Webpages I have read and videos that I have watched to gain more extensive knowledge;

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