{"id":525016,"date":"2026-04-11T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:52:08","slug":"liverpool-grave-of-murdered-james-bulgers-vandalised-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525016\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool grave of murdered James Bulger&#8217;s vandalised again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grave of murdered toddler James Bulger has been vandalised for a second time in six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two cherub statue heads next to the two-year-old&#8217;s headstone have been cut off at Kirkdale Cemetery in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James was lured away from his mother 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\">Katie McCreath, who is part of his mother Denise Fergus&#8217; legal team, said she was &#8220;devastated&#8221; by the vandalism. Merseyside Police said the damage happened on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grave of murdered toddler James Bulger has been vandalised for a second time in six weeks. Two&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-525016","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\/525016","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=525016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525016\/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=525016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}