The mother of murdered toddler, James Bulger, has told BBC Radio 5 Live that she doesn’t want the new identities of his killers to be revealed.
Speaking to Anna Foster this morning Denise Fergus said she wanted them to remain anonymous, because she doesn’t want “blood on my hands.”
It is her first interview since James’ father and uncle launched a legal challenge to allow Jon Venables’s new identity to be revealed. However, she believed it could lead to vigilante attacks.
“Eight years in a young offenders [institution] is no sentence at all. Especially when it concerned them two, they got the best of everything,” she said.
“They had better lives in my opinion when they killed James. They got everything they asked for: bedrooms, they could choose the bedding, the curtains, the carpets, they probably never had that at home.
“But to this day, I’ve always said, I don’t want them dead, because I don’t want blood on my hands. I don’t agree with killing someone. I just think that all I’ve ever wanted was justice for James and getting that justice would be them two going from young offenders to a proper prison and spend proper time in there.”
She told Foster that the court case has nothing to do with her “whatsoever.”
“I just think it’ll be a total waste of money to release their identities and open a can of worms. I think a lot of other people are gonna come forward for the same thing,” she added.
You can listen to the full interview at 10.10am on May 3rd on BBC Radio 5 Live or via the BBC iPlayer.
