MORE than £18,000 has been donated to repair murdered toddler James Bulger’s vandalised grave.
Mum Denise Fergus said she “felt my heart break once again” when she saw the cherubs on each side of his headstone had been smashed to pieces.
More than 1,400 had donated last night, with top donations being as much as £753 from a single person.
Denise wrote on the GoFundMe page: “We got a message from a lady walking her dog at the cemetery where James’s resting place is.
“She sadly told us his headstone and surround had been vandalised.
“We rushed down there to find the cherubs each side of his headstone had been smashed to pieces.
“I need to find whoever has done this to my son’s resting place.”
She added: “I’m devastated someone could be so cruel and hurtful to my James.”
James was lured away from his mum in February 1993 at Bootle shopping centre by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both 10, who tortured and killed him.
Venables and Thompson were found guilty of Bulger’s abduction and murder on November 24, 1993 – making them the youngest people to be jailed for murder in 250 years.
The monsters had poured modelling paint into his eyes, stoned him and clubbed him with bricks, before leaving him on the railway line to be hit by a train.
At 18 years old, Venables and Thompson were both released from a young offenders’ institution under licence in June 2001.
After intensive rehabilitation, the pair were handed new identities.
Thompson has not re-offended since being released on licence when he was 18 years old.
But Venables has been recalled to jail twice since he was first released in 2001 for possessing indecent images of children.
Venables’ new identity has been changed twice after he told friends he was a convicted murderer.
