I saw kids had taken Jamie and it gave me hope he was still alive...
Denise Bulger to reveal heartbreak of son’s murder in book
James was battered to death They took the youngster to a railway track and battered him to death with bricks, stones and an iron bar before laying him on the line to be cut in half by a freight train. In her book, I Let Him Go, Denise relives the moment she let go of her son’s hand to take out CCTV of tot being led away
Now Denise is ready to tell her story her purse in the New Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle.
She reveals she almost didn’t take him shopping at all that morning on February 12, 1993. And she will tell of the decisions she wishes she had made differently – how she usually put Venables and Thompson James in his buggy and how, if she had turned right instead of left when she frantically ran out of the butcher’s, she might have seen him being led away.
Denise said: “My final hours and minutes with my beautiful James will be forever etched in my mind until my dying day.”
Venables and Thompson were convicted of murder. They were released on life licence under new identities in 2001.
Natalie Jerome, of Kings Road Publishing, acquired rights to Denise’s memoirs from Amanda Preston at LBA Books and Kym Rowlingson of Krystal Management through an auction.
The book, ghostwritten by Carly Cook, will publish in hardback on January 25, 2018. A donation from all sales will go to the James Bulger Memorial Trust, launched by Denise to support young victims of crime, hatred or bullying.
dan.warburton@trinitymirror.com