Ford Madox Brown The Coat of Many Colors painting

Ford Madox Brown The Coat of Many Colors painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir La Loge painting
The victim, 2-year-old James Bulger, had been led away from a shopping mall near Liverpool, tormented and beaten to death.After the boys’ attorneys appealed, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in December that Britain violated the rights of the defendants by trying them as adults. It also agreed with a 1997 decision by the House of Lords that former Home Secretary Michael Howard was wrong in overruling the trial judge and raising the minimum prison terms from eight years to 15 years.Woolf said Thompson and Venables had done everything possible to redeem themselves following their “horrendous” crime.“The one overriding mitigating feature of the offense is the age of the two boys when the crime was committed,” Woolf said.“However grave their crime, the fact remains that if that crime had been committed a few months earlier, when they were under 10, the boys could not have been tried or punished by the courts.”