Were Jamie Bulger’s killers too young at 10 years to fully understand what they did? Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner of England, believes they were and has called for the age of criminal responsibility to be set at 12 rather than 10. Her words – expressed in an interview with The Times at the weekend – come during a particularly difficult time for the family of Jamie Bulger, as Jon Venables h...


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