She added: \u201cThe cherubs that we had got repaired with great care just a few weeks ago, have once again had their heads scythed off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow evil do you need to be to vandalise and destroy a child\u2019s grave. I am devastated. We must find this person. We have informed the police. We urge anyone with details to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
It comes after a GoFundMe page in support of the replacement grave saw donations surge beyond \u00a323,000 – allowing a temporary repair and financing a replacement headstone for the initial vandalism in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Fergus praised the \u201carmy of heroes\u201d who came to her aid after it was found ruined.<\/p>\n
Two-year-old Jamie\u2019s life was ended after the toddler was abducted by child killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson from a Merseyside shopping centre on 12 February 1993.<\/p>\n
The pair, who were both aged 10 at the time, were locked up following their murder convictions.<\/p>\n
It comes as the latest bid for freedom by 43-year-old Venables is set to be heard by a parole board – the first oral hearing in more than two years, after his last appeal was rejected.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the Parole Board rejected the bid and found he still posed a danger to children and could go on to offend again.<\/p>\n
Venables was released on licence in July 2001 and recalled to prison in February 2010 after indecent images of children were found on his computer.<\/p>\n
He was once again freed in August 2013 and then called back in November 2017 for the same offence, with parole judges considering his case again in September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: \u201cThe cherubs that we had got repaired with great care just a few weeks ago, have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-525123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525123","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=525123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}