{"id":450869,"date":"2026-02-28T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:37:16","slug":"donations-of-15k-over-james-bulgers-kirkdale-grave-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450869\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations of \u00a315k over James Bulger&#8217;s Kirkdale grave damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have donated more than \u00a315,000 to repair the vandalised grave of murdered toddler James Bulger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two cherub statues next to the two-year-old&#8217;s headstone had their heads smashed off in the attack at Kirkdale Cemetery in Liverpool on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James was lured away from his mum in February 1993 at a Bootle shopping centre by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson &#8211; then both aged 10 &#8211; who tortured and killed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother Denise Fergus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg4g3yw547zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said she felt her heart break<\/a> when she learned of the damage, and launched a GoFundMe appeal to fix the headstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People have donated more than \u00a315,000 to repair the vandalised grave of murdered toddler James Bulger. Two cherub&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-450869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}