Dad says instinct led to CCTV breakthrough which helped catch James Bulger killers
Alex Radnor-Boulton said intuition led him to identify a key piece of evidence in the murder
Alex Radnor-Boulton, 70, from Bootle, claims he helped police track James Bulger s killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
A Liverpool dad has revealed how his instinct led to a tip-off that helped catch the killers of James Bulger.
Alex Radnor-Boulton, 70, from Bootle, has shared for the first time how a hunch of his gave detectives an unexpected lead in the case.
The 70-year-old, who would have been 43 years old around the time, worked for Tynwald Electrical Services and spent a lot of his days in the area around the Bootle Strand shopping centre, from where James was taken by killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10, abducted James Bulger in 1993
Search party started at Strand shopping centre, Bootle where he disappeared Alex Radnor-Boulton retraced steps out of centre and suggested checking CCTV
Local business AMEX found breakthrough footage of boys walking off nearby
Led to Bulger s body being found on railway line and later conviction of Venables and Thompson