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June 25th 1983, Pensacola, Florida: 35-year-old John Gentry was leaving a party in the downtown area. He promised his fiancé, Judy Buenoano, that he’d pick up some champagne and meet her. Buenoano watched in horror and John escaped the burning wreckage alive. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e5: Judy Buenoano, Sky Crime 2023
‘She was every man’s worst nightmare. And if you met Judy, you should run for your life. Literally.’ ibid. Orlando reporter
Three men already lay dead and buried. Gentry should have been the fourth. Her victims were those who loved her the most … She only saw them as money in the bank. ibid.
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Leicestershire, 11th February 2022: I’m being followed by 2 vehicles. A46. They’re trying to ram me off the road. Please, I’m begging you! TikTok: Murder Gone Viral: The Mother & Daughter Killers, 999 call, ITV2 2024
A social media influencer and her mother have gone on trial for murder. ibid. news
Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin died after their car was rammed off the road after a high-speed chase. ibid.
Within about five weeks, eight persons had been charged. ibid. rozzer
All connections led back to Mahek Bukhari. ibid. journalist
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For the Bulger family an unimaginable nightmare began when he was lured from her side in this butcher’s shop. The police search was futile; hundreds of officers combed Liverpool but James had already been dragged and pulled two and a half miles from Bootle to Walton. ITV News report 1993
Two eleven-year-old boys are tonight beginning sentences for the murder of James Bulger, the two-year-old Liverpool boy. ITV News at Ten report
Bulger’s killers were children themselves – as Robert Thompson and Jon Venables became the youngest people to be charged with murder in the twentieth century. Murders that Shocked Britain s3e4: The Murder of James Bulger, CI 2012
The then Home Secretary Michael Howard responded to public pressure and increased the jail terms to fifteen years. ibid.
On the afternoon of Friday 12th February 1993 a 2-year-old boy disappears from a shopping centre in Bootle, near Liverpool. His name is James Bulger. Crimes that Shook Britain: James Bulger
Along with a confession from Venables, compelling evidence from the scene also links the boys to the murder. ibid.
James Bulger’s killers inflicted 42 injuries on the two-year-old, a Home Office pathologist yesterday told the jury trying two 11-year-olds for his murder. He had multiple fractures to the skull and the right side was shattered.
Dr Alan Williams counted 22 bruises, splits and grazes on James’s face and head, and 20 more wounds on his body.
The prosecution at Preston Crown Court claims the accused boys – who deny all charges – attacked him on 12 February at a railway embankment in Walton, Liverpool. It claims they knew they were doing wrong and intended to cause James serious injury.
Dr Williams said that post-mortem examinations revealed that James had been struck by at least 30 blows, and he had endured ‘a short period of survival’ after the attack. The Independent online article Jonathan Foster 10th November 1993
Frozen in time – a moment in 1993 that James was abducted. The crime was unprecedented and all the more horrific because his killers were children themselves. Real Crime with Mark Austin s7e13: James Bulger: A Mother’s Story, ITV 2008
He appeared to be following two boys. ibid.
Sunday 14th February 1993: The body of a toddler was found on a railway track in Liverpool’s Walton district. ibid.
Robert Thompson … was ten years old … John Venables … he was also ten years old … both suspects were taken to separate police stations away from the media. ibid.
‘So we walked up to him and we were walking around him and I took his hand.’ The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done? police taped evidence, Channel 4 2018
25 years ago James Bulger was murdered by Robert Thomas and Jon Venables. Amid the furious press frenzy the public debate raged: were they monsters who should be locked up for life? ibid.
On 12th February 1993 James Bulger went missing from the Bootle Strand shopping centre in Merseyside. ibid.
When presented with their evidence the boys began to blame each other. ibid.
‘James is never far from conversation anyway.’ Trevor McDonald, James Bulger: A Mother’s Story, ITV 2018
The abduction and murder of James Bulger was one of the most disturbing stories … and remains deeply shocking to this day. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were the youngest children in living memory to be convicted of murder. ibid.
The boys now blamed each other for taking the lead role in the killing. ibid.
Jon Venables was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Venables was jailed for two years. Yesterday, after reoffending in 2017, he pleaded guilty to the possession of child pornography and is now back in prison. ibid.
Little James, the couple’s only son … 1993 Bootle just north of Liverpool … When she turns around James is gone. How could he have vanished? … She scours the shopping centre … Killer Kids s1e7: Group Killers, 2011
At only ten the two boys are little terrors … A security camera catches them on film as they leave … They hit him and pelt him with bricks; they finish their victim off by whacking him on the head with an iron plaque. ibid.
In 1993, 2 10-year-old boys from Liverpool became the most notorious and despised child murderers in the world. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were the youngest children ever to be tried of murder and convicted in Britain. They had abducted and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger. It is a crime that has haunted Britain. James Bulger: New Revelations, Channel 5 2018
Security footage from the Strand shopping centre revealed that he had been led away by two youths. ibid.
The battered body of James was found by children playing. His body has been left on the railway track. ibid.
They were interviewed over three days … ‘They blamed each other.’ ibid.
Thompson and Venables both entered please of not guilty at the trial, each continuing to blame each other. ibid.
When Thompson was in school he was indifferent and untrustworthy. ibid.
‘My life on the streets was better for me than my life at home.’ ibid. Thompson
He [Jon] cut himself deliberately with scissors … and threw things at other children … He tried to choke another child with a ruler.’ ibid. Venables’ school report
2010: He [Venables] was imprisoned for downloading images of child pornography. In 2017 he was back in prison again for the same offence. ibid.