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I was only 15 when the most evil child-killer of all time, Mary Bell, was convicted of the vicious murders of two little boys. I was the Minister for policing and criminal justice and had to read the full details of the Jamie Bulger case, who was murdered by Thompson and Venables, as the Home Office was appealing against what we considered the leniency of the sentence. It made the most nauseating reading. I feel really sorry for the jury, who heard every single word of that and saw the photographs.