The James Bulger murder and 10 crimes that shook Britain
It is 20 years since James Bulger was abducted and killed in one of the country's most shocking crimes
Led to his death:
The image of toddler James Bulger being led away from a shopping arcade by his killers still haunts 20 years on.
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were convicted of torturing and murdering the youngster, but their life sentences were set to a minimum of just eight years.
The case is one of the most shocking crimes in recent UK history.
We look back at other crimes that shook the nation...
1 - The murder of James Bulger
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two boys jailed in
1993 for beating to death of two-year-old toddler James Bulger
(pictured)
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James Bulger, who was just short of his third birthday, was
murdered in February 1993 by two 10-year-old boys who lured him away
from a Liverpool shopping arcade while his mother was distracted.
The boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, led the crying toddler on a two and a half mile walk across the city to Walton. Robert Thompson, 10 years of age, poses for a mugshot for British authorities February 20, 1993
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Jon Venables, 10 years of age, poses for a mugshot for British authorities February 20, 1993
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There, on a rarely used piece of railway, they used bricks and
sticks to beat and torture him and finally killed him by repeatedly
dropping a 22lbs piece of steel railway track on his head.
The killers then placed his body across a rail hoping people would think he had been killed by a train.
When
he was found two days later his body had been cut in half by a freight
train but police examinations showed he was already dead before he was
run over.
CCTV from the shopping centre showed him being led away by the two older boys, who were soon caught.
Thompson and Venables were tried and convicted, becoming the youngest murderers ever in British history. Daily Mirror 1993 02 17 Jamie Bulger
2 - The assassination of Airey Neave
Airey Neave Conservative MP Aug 1973, chairman of the Member of Parliament
Daily Mirror
Airey Neave, a leading Conservative MP and shadow cabinet
minister, was assassinated as he drove his car out of the car park under
the House of Commons on 30 March 1979.
A bomb, activated by a mercury tilt switch, exploded under his Vauxhall as the 63 year old politician drove up the exit ramp.
Neave,
who had been appointed shadow Minister for Northern Ireland by Margaret
Thatcher, died hours later from terrible injuries.
The Irish National Liberation Army, a break away group from the Provisional IRA, claimed responsibility.
The incident was the only ever murder of a politician inside the Houses of Parliament and caused public outrage.
Years
later a debate raged over who actually killed him, with some
politicians claiming Neave was murdered by MI6 and the CIA because he
was going to expose spies inside Western Intelligence.
No one has ever been convicted of his murder.
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