On 12th February 1993, Denise Fergus's life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand for a few seconds to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again.For the first time since that moment 25 years ago, Denise tells her extraordinary story in this heart-wrenching book, an unflinching account of that terrible day. What if she had never taken James shopping? What if she had turned right coming out of the butcher's, instead of left? Denise's initial hope after seeing her son on CCTV with other children quickly turned to devastation when, two days later, James' body was found.His death reverberated around the world and his killers became the youngest ever convicted murderers in UK legal history. Four minutes is all it took for them to lead James away from his mother to his death. Denise took up a tortuous legal battle for James, and it was her astonishing strength and love for her son that ultimately helped to change the way the law treats victims of crime.This is a mother's tale of finding a way through the despair to remember the happiness and wonderful memories that James brought his family. Above all, Denise doesn't want her son to be remembered as a murdered child, and with this beautifully written book, she does just that.Part of the proceeds of the book will be donated to the James Bulger Memorial Trust.
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I Let Him Go
A mother's heartbreaking true story of the murder that shocked the world
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- I Let Him Go: From the Mother of James Bulger
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: A Liverpool Girl
- Chapter 2: Loss and Life
- Chapter 3: Forging a Bond
- Chapter 4: Fizzing With Life
- Chapter 5: Final Hours
- Chapter 6: The Hunt
- Chapter 7: ‘Please Bring My Baby Home.’
- Chapter 8: Starting a Life Sentence
- Chapter 9: The Arrests
- Chapter 10: My Baby’s Funeral
- Chapter 11: Falling Apart
- Chapter 12: The Eye of the Storm
- Chapter 13: The Trial
- Chapter 14: Guilty
- Chapter 15: A Reason to Live
- Chapter 16: Petition for Justice
- Chapter 17: Just Me and My Son Michael
- Chapter 18: My Rock
- Chapter 19: Picking up the Fight
- Chapter 20: New Beginnings
- Chapter 21: My Voice
- Chapter 22: Release
- Chapter 23: Keeping Focussed
- Chapter 24: Caught
- Chapter 25: Gone, But Never Forgotten
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Section 1
- Picture Section 2
- Imprint
- Echo Publishing
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