Bulger mum: Killers not too young to be tried

JAMES BULGER’S mother called for the British Children’s Commissioner to be sacked for “twisted and insensitive” comments about the murder of her two-year-old son.

Denise Fergus spoke out after Dr Maggie Atkinson said his killers should never have been prosecuted because they were too young to understand the full consequences of their actions.

The Ministry of Justice yesterday ruled out Dr Atkinson’s proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 years, saying children aged 10 and over did know the difference between “bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing”.