Lawyer reveals ‘nightmare’ of defending one of Bulger’s killers

A lawyer has told of the “living nightmare” of representing one of James Bulger’s child murderers, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the toddler’s death.

Solicitor Laurence Lee said that, at first, he could not believe the “angelic-looking” Jon Venables could possibly have carried out such a brutal and sadistic killing.

But “the walls came crashing in” soon into his client’s police interviews when it became clear that Venables had been lying and that he had carried out the killing with his friend Robert Thompson, also then aged 10.