JAMES Bulger’s mum has told of her final moment with her boy before he was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

Little James was just two-years-old when he was tragically taken and killed by two schoolboys in one of the most horrific crimes of the twentieth century.

February 12 will be the 30th anniversary of James Bulger’s murder

His mum Denise Fergus has told of her heartbreak

Jon Venables snatched young James with Robert Thompson
The youngster was led to his death from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside in 1993, by warped Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.

Now, 30 years on, James’ mum Denise Fergus has told of the moments leading up to his terrifying abduction.

In her updated autobiography I Let Him Go, serialised by The Mirror, she says it will be “etched” on her mind until her “dying day.”

She wrote: “Getting my purse out to buy two pork chops for tea was the last thing I did before my world imploded forever.
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“I went into the butcher’s holding my little boy’s hand and I left without James’s hand in mine.

“That was how our last moments together went: no long goodbye, no last cuddles and snuggles with the baby who meant more to me than life itself, just me letting go of James’s hand for a split second, rummaging around in my purse for the right change, and my two-year-old son being led away to his death by the 10-year-old boys who murdered him.”

It comes after she revealed that one of his killers, Jon Venables, may never be free under a planned parole overhaul.

Venables has twice been returned to jail for possessing images of child sex abuse.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told her he would not walk free again under his proposed new “two strikes and you stay in” policy.

She said: “What we have been promised has made the last 30 years of pushing for James worth it.

“Mr Raab has told me straightforwardly that under his new legislation it would basically be a case of ‘two strikes and you stay in prison’ .

“That would apply to the three most serious types of criminals – paedophiles, child killers and terrorists.

“There would not be endless chances at rehabilitating anyone who had committed this type of crime.

“And that meant, under Raab’s planned new law, Venables would never see the light of day.

“I feel hopeful for the first time in 30 years that this could become law and we’d have justice for James and for future potential victims. It would be historic.”

Chilling CCTV shows the moment James was led away by his killersCredit: Getty