There’s no denying that what they did was horrific and will never be explained. It’ll be pored over by the public, academics, liberals and psychologists all trying to make some sense or give an explanation for the incomprehensible.
Two feral scallies in a game of dare and double dare, each looking to outdo the other in an ever-escalating horror that one can’t imagine.
The act itself aside, everybody lost that day. The Bulgers lost a son, Venables and Thompson lost and by their actions destroyed the innocence of childhood in the most ghastly manner. Their families lost too, lost their sons and the years of seeing them become teenagers and young men, ordinary members of society. What sense of horror and shame for them too?
It was almost as if society too had lost its mind, trying to fathom the inexplicable.
The press lost any semblance of decency it had by printing ‘details’ of the circumstances of death that were utter lies.
The telling and re-telling of it will continue for decades and there’ll always be a new or different perspective in order to try and understand the inexplicable.