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James Bulger's mother 'over the moon' as she is finally granted public inquiry into how her son's killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were sentenced with MPs set to debate it in Parliament

James Bulger's mother is 'over the moon' after MPs will debate holding a public inquiry into her two-year-old son's death.

Denise Fergus has long called for the inquiry into how her child's murderers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were sentenced.

The pair abducted James in 1993 from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, by Venables and Thompson, both aged ten. The toddler's body was found two miles away on a railway line in Liverpool.

The pair served eight years before being released on licence in 2001, aged 18, and they were given new identities.