If you’re English, then this picture (from 1993) will be instantly recognisable because the sickening memories of depravity this picture evokes will never be forgotten by anyone in this country.

The two-year-old toddler in the picture was out with his mum shopping when he was abducted by two eleven-year-old boys – Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (one of whom is holding his hand in the photo). What they did to this child when they decided to m*rder him wasn’t just inhumane, it was quite simply – evil.

The agonies Jamie Bulger must have suffered in those two and a half hours before they finally got bored of t*rturing him and crushed his skull, are beyond human comprehension. As is trying to understand the reasoning behind how two eleven-year-old boys, could ever think that the brutal t*rture and m*rder of a child was in any way, an acceptable and rational act.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were released in 2001 & 2002 respectively, with new identities and into protective custody.