Child-on-child killing that shocked the world

IT was a grainy CCTV image that appeared to show an innocent scene of a toddler walking hand-in-hand with a child.

But what the fuzzy pictures in fact revealed turned out to be every parent’s worst nightmare.

As James Bulger was led through the Strand shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on February 12 1993, there was nothing to hint at the dreadful murder he would later suffer.