When leaving Bootle to travel back to his office in Anfield, Alex Radnor-Boulton always drove straight along Merton Road.
As the electrical engineer for the Triad offices above the Strand, the journey had become a familiar one. It was the swiftest route back towards Walton and was the same stretch of road that two year-old James Bulger had been led along on February 12, 1993.
James was reported missing that same day. His dead body was found two days later on the rail line passing over Walton Lane, a police station just a few hundred yards away.