Timeline

12 February 1993: Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from Bootle’s Strand Shopping Centre

14 February 1993: James Bulger’s battered body is found lying on a railway track by Walton Lane Police Station

18 February 1993: Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are arrested at their homes in the Liverpool area

22 February 1993: Robert Thompson and Jon Venables appear in court charged with the abduction and murder of James Bulger

1 March 1993: James Bulger’s funeral takes place1 November 1993 The trial takes place at Preston Crown Court

24 November 1993: The jury find Robert Thompson and Jon Venables guilty of the abduction and murder of James Bulger

22 June 2001: Having served their minimum eight-year sentence Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are released

23 July 2010: Venables is arrested and jailed for downloading and distributing indecent images of children

What drove James Bulger's young killers?

Was their upbringing responsible? Or were other factors at play…?