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reading James fathers story has opened my eyes, in a bad way. I'd known of how flawed our judicial system was first hand and how it protects the law breaker and not the victim. what I didn't realise until reading this book, was to what a huge extent it goes to with hardly any thought to the victim. Bulger killer Venables faces 'extremely serious' claim". BBC. 6 March 2010. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022 . Retrieved 6 March 2010.

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