Several noticed injuries to his head - a mark on the forehead and a bump on the right side, another bump on the top of the head, a graze on the face, a red mark on the cheek. Some witnesses said James was crying and extremely distressed, some that he was laughing. Many of them noticed that the boy was distressed, said Mr Henriques, but all seem to have assumed that he was in the care of an older brother or brothers. He then described how witnesses had seen James with the two boys during the two-mile journey which lasted two hours and ended with his death. ![]() 'It can be deduced that they left the precinct with some haste.' Little more than a minute later James was filmed going across the upper level of the complex close to the two defendants, Mr Henriques said.įrom the moment James was first seen on camera with the two boys to the time he left the centre with them was one minute 39 secs, said Mr Henriques. Mrs Bulger ran in panic out of the butcher's shop and was filmed by one of 16 security cameras searching for her son. Mr Henriques said: 'Mrs Bulger believed James was by her side when she was being served - but when she looked down, he was gone.' In Tesco he helped himself to some Smarties.Īt about 3.40pm they went into a butcher's shop. He seemed to be in high spirits - in one shop a baby suit fell on his head and he started throwing it about. They visited various shops and on several occasions James broke free from his mother and ran off. On Friday February 12, James and his mother drove to the Strand shopping centre at Bootle with her sister-in-law, Nicola Bailey. Mr Henriques told the jury of nine men and three women that James was the only child of Ralph and Denise Bulger, of Kirkby. The other removed his jacket and gazed at the ornate ceiling and chandeliers of the wood-panelled courtroom. ![]() Both were smartly dressed in dark blazers, one wearing a white shirt and a dark blue striped tie and the other a blue shirt and a red tie with a light stripe.įrom time to time one of the boys glanced nervously at his parents, sitting close by. Sitting on raised seats in the dock, the accused boys sat with two social workers as Mr Henriques outlined the prosecution case. Mr Henriques claimed that both boys intended to kill James or cause him serious injury, that both acted jointly throughout, and that both knew what they were doing was seriously wrong. They also deny attempting to abduct another child. The two boys, both now 11, deny abducting and murdering James.
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