Ralph Bulger branded Detainment, which has been tipped as a potential Oscar winner, “offensive” and claimed it was too sympathetic to the pair who attacked his boy in 1993. The 30-minute drama is based on police interviews with Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were both 10 when they kidnapped and murdered two-year-old James. Ralph, 52, said: “Not once has the maker of this film contacted me or any of James’s family about this film. “But I have never been so cut up and offended by something that shows so little compassion to James and his family. It’s impossible to show the unimaginable pain of James Bulger’s family in the space of a short film.

Source: Daily Mirror January 06, 2019 22:01 UTC