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 the famous 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
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