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The three children of the 1st Baron Thomson's third child, Phyllis Audrey Thomson – Linda, Susan (died 2017, stake bequeathed to her four children) [7] and Gaye – hold a roughly 11% stake each. [6]
- Poor Parenting
- Psychopathy
- The Need For Control Or Power
- Sexual Gratification
- Video Nasties
Quite obviously, overseeing a home environment in which physical, emotional, verbal and sexual violence is rife is bad parenting. Robert Thompson’s mother and father were patently not good parents. That much is clear. But Jon Venables’ background was seemingly free from the shocking and traumatic events that his friend Robert endured. The Venables ...
A mental disorder where a person manifests completely amoral behaviour and a lack of ability to love or empathise, psychopathy is the root of many of history’s most infamous crimes. But can it explain the murder of James Bulger? Despite commonly held beliefs, psychopathy is mostly determined genetically. The ‘nurture’side can exacerbate the conditi...
One of the overriding motives behind any great act of violence or murder is the urge to be able to effectively exert power and control over your environment. This is often given as a driver for serial killers from extremely abusive and chaotic backgrounds. Could this factor have been at play here? Jon had a reputation for violence at school, often ...
Vicious murders can often be motivated by a sexual element. Some of the grislier details of the murder of Jamie Bulger may indicate this here to a lesser degree, but while that was a working theory of Merseyside Police for a time, it’s not widely believed to be a motivator now. Jon Venables' psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Bailey, later reported that 'on v...
After the murder, people wanted answers to the question we’re looking at here. Understandably so. How can two children commit such a brutal act against an innocent young boy? One theory was immediately put forward - horror films. A term first coined in the 1980s when a swathe of violent horror films made their way into people’s homes via the exciti...
William Thompson of Tower City was born about 1839 or 1840 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of Alexander Thompson (1805-1873), an immigrant from Scotland who emigrated to America in 1828 to engage in various pursuits including flour milling, lumbering and mining.
On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 [2] – 12 February 1993). [3][4] Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, after his mother had taken her eyes off him ...
Dec 13, 2023 · Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were just ten years old when they committed the brutal murder of two-year-old James Bulger. The boys were taken to separate police stations where they gave a...
Nov 14, 2018 · A woman saw images of the boys on television on recognised Venables, who she knew had played truant with Thompson on the day James went missing. She contacted police and the boys were arrested.
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Sep 6, 2023 · What happened to Jon Venables and Robert Thompson? The boys were ordered to be detained “at her majesty’s pleasure” - meaning indefinitely.
