James Bulger
It is a haunting image frozen in time that shocked the world over. A snapshot from a CCTV camera showing a toddler in a busy shopping centre hand in hand with one of his killers – who was just 10 years old. It’s now 20 years since two-year-old James Bulger was murdered by the two schoolboys who lured him away from his mother, but the case is still making headlines. In this major Sunday Night investigation we reveal secret tapes that were not played at the trial, that were hidden from the watching world. The voices of the Year 5 schoolboys who brutally murdered James are spine chilling as they confess to what they did. Now both 30 years of age, their identities have been hidden and protected for life by the British government. One of them, named Jon Venables at the time of the crime, is now applying for parole after being convicted of pornography offences after he was released. James’ mother Denise tells Sunday Night why he is pure evil, and why she’s determined to face him at his parole hearing. Derryn Hinch also speaks candidly with the detective who arrested and interviewed the killers, and why he doesn’t believe the punishment fit the crime.
The Face Doctor
He’s the human smash repairer who every ‘Bloody Monday’ rebuilds faces after the carnage of the weekend. On Sunday Night, meet the remarkable man they call the Face Doctor. Anthony Lynham, a jaw and face reconstructive surgeon, is faced with a waiting room of broken faces every week. Innocent victims of the drunken violence police struggle to contain in towns and cities across the country. Dr Lynham is now going public, fronting a campaign to make politicians toughen up and back his answer for ending the violence. He’s simply had enough and he won’t go away until they listen. Meet one of his patients, Annette. A young Brisbane mum, she was bashed with a steel pole in a random attack in the middle of the city. She returns to the scene where it happened and delivers an e
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