{"id":550005,"date":"2026-04-25T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:05:28","slug":"james-bulgers-vandalised-stolen-grave-items-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550005\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bulger&#8217;s vandalised stolen grave items found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family of murdered toddler James Bulger say they have found items taken from his grave when it was vandalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-year-old was abducted from a Bootle shopping centre in 1993, before being tortured and killed by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson &#8211; then both aged 10 &#8211; in a crime that shocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two cherub statues next to James&#8217; grave in Kirkdale Cemetery were damaged twice in six weeks earlier this year \u2013 once in February and and again this month. A fundraiser to repair the headstone amassed more than \u00a323,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, a 78-year-old man, from Kirkby, was arrested on suspicion of theft and criminal damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of murdered toddler James Bulger say they have found items taken from his grave when it&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":["post-550005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550005","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=550005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550005\/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=550005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}