Human Rights judgement criticised by James Bulger's parents
Monday, 15 March 1999 13:42
The parents of James Bulger have criticised a declaration by the European Commission of Human Rights. The Commission ruled that the two boys, convicted of murdering two-year-old James in the North of England, six years ago, were not given a fair trial.
The Commission, which vets applications for human rights cases, upheld complaints lodged by lawyers for Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, paving the way for a full human rights hearing later this year.
The two boys, both from Merseyside, were 10 when they abducted James from a shopping centre in Bootle in 1993 and dragged him for two miles before killing him and leaving his body on a railway track. Sean Sexton, a who is lawyer for the Bulger family, says that James's parents are appalled by today's outcome.
