A man who 'changed totally' and became a career criminal after finding the body of murdered toddler James Bulger when he was 14 has died in police custody, MailOnline can reveal.
James Riley, 44, was discovered on his police cell floor on March 15, after being detained by officers.
Riley, nicknamed Osty, discovered James's body in 1993 on a railway line in Liverpool, Merseyside, when he was 14 years old. James, then two, was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both aged ten, in a brutal killing that shocked the nation.
Friends and family say the discovery left him struggling to cope with drug addiction - and led to a life of crime, racking up more than 40 convictions.