'Why did you let go of his hand?': James Bulger's father admits he blamed his ex-wife for his death Mr Bulger told how his wife had asked him to take James with him to a friend's house, where he planned to do some DIY, on that February morning in 1993 because she was going to visit her mother. "I was normally happy to have James with me, but on this occasion, with all the tools, I was concerned that he might get hurt," he said. Not taking James with me that morning is the biggest single regret of my life. The toddler was taken as Mrs Fergus let go of his hand to pay for some meat in a butcher's shop in Liverpool's Strand Shopping Centre. Mr Bulger described his short-loved relief when he was told CCTV had captured James being taken by two young boys. They assumed it must just be a childish prank and that their son would be found unharmed. However, the following day, Mr Bulger's brother, Jimmy, broke the news that he had dreaded. "I was punching the walls and I was just kicking and screaming before I collapsed and wailed like a baby," he said. We were both crying together, trapped in a world of pain that no one else could ever understand. Denise was inconsolable. To hear your wife crying in such way is unbearable. It was like listening to a wounded animal. There is no question that I considered killing myself. The only thing that stopped me from doing so was the thought that I would be letting James down once again. James's body was found severed on a railway track in Walton, Liverpool. He had suffered 42 injuries. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both ten at the time, were convicted of murdering two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool in February 1993 when they were both aged 10. They were released on life licence in 2001. Venables was recalled to prison for a breach of parole in February 2010 when he was caught in possession of paedophile pornography. In June 2010 he was handed a two-year sentence for possession and distribution of indecent images. He was refused parole in 2011.