As she spent yet another heartbreaking Christmas without her son, Denise Fergus took comfort from a government plan that Jon Venables would never be free – and from the words of a police forensic psychologist.
Professor Paul Britton, who was on the case in 1993, had recently shared details Denise had never heard before, revealing to her for the first time that he did not think Venables and Robert Thompson’s attack on two-year-old James was sexually motivated.
Prof Britton also told her their age – both were 10 at the time of the killing – was no excuse. They were murderers, plain and simple.
