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THE police officer who led the investigation into James Bulger’s murder has revealed a tip-off helped them nail his killers.
Jim Fitzsimmons, a newly promoted detective inspector on his first shift, took over the hunt for the two-year-old two hours after Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10, snatched him in 1993.
He said CCTV footage from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, showing the boys holding James’ hand, was “really poor” and officers thought they were 14 to 16.
But a day after James’ body was found came an unexpected lead.
Jim said: “We got a call from the proprietor of a business called AMEX. He’d got CCTV from his car park, a very grainy image of three youngsters.
“We could see the difference in Thompson and Venables and we realised they were much smaller than they’d looked on the shopping centre images.
“That really changed everything. We decided that we include suspects who were a lot younger.
So when a friend of the Venables family noticed paint on Jon’s coat, we’d already opened our minds to the possibility these boys could be as young as 10.”
Jim will be retelling his story in a two-part documentary Lost Boy: The Killing of James Bulger which starts on Channel 5 on Wednesday.