Name these torture brothers, says mother of murdered toddler James Bulger

THE mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has said the young brothers who sadistically tortured two other boys in South Yorkshire should be named.

Denise Fergus, whose two-year-old son was killed by two 10-year-olds in 1993, said the brothers' parents should also be identified to show "justice has been done".

The siblings - aged 10 and 11 at the time of their attack - were locked up last week for at least five years for torturing and sexually humiliating the nine-year-old and 11-year-old boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire.

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Ms Fergus said: "These two boys should be named - and so should their parents. Unless they are fully identified, how can people be satisfied that justice has been done?" She added: "The parents in particular should be named and shamed. They bear a lot of the blame for what their sons did. If they are not named, it means they have got away with it and that is completely wrong."

The young victims were strangled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, stripped and forced to sexually abuse each other.

It emerged during the court case that the elder attacker watched ultra-violent movies as part of a home life of "routine aggression, violence and chaos". He also watched the gruesome Saw movies when he was as young as 10, and was also familiar with the Chucky films as well as pornography DVDs.

Ms Fergus wrote in The Sun newspaper: "Boys like this who are so evil by the age of 10 and 11 will never be changed into decent people. In the children's homes they will just learn how to play the system with the anonymity and protection that they will be given for life."

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Social services and other organisations missed numerous opportunities to intervene with the perpetrators during their violent and chaotic upbringing, provoking widespread anger.

The Conservatives have urged the Government to publish the Serious Case Review (SCR) surrounding the matter in full so that lessons can be learned about how officials handled it. Shadow children's secretary Michael Gove said the shorter executive summary released was "a wholly inadequate document" which failed to reflect the scale of shortcomings on the part of official agencies involved.

But the Children's Society said it would be "inappropriate" to publish more than a summary of the investigation because SCRs "inevitably contain a great deal of case material that should remain confidential".