JAMIE BULGER: CASE UNCENSORED

An original radio drama by

Josh Gasparro
 JAMIE BULGER: CASE UNCENSORED

JON VENABLES JOSH

ROBERT THOMPSON HARRIOT
NARRATOR JACK
POLICE INVESTIGATOR SUMMER
POLICE INVESTIGATOR LUKE
SUSAN VENABLES ALANA
ANN THOMPSON ALANA
JAMIE BULGER ABI
SHOP KEEPER ADAM
JONS FATHER DYLAN
 JAMIE BULGER: CASE UNCENSORED

SCENE 1: NEWS REPORT – STUDIO- NIGHT

SOUND EFFECT: TV REPORT, DIFFERENT REPORTS ALL

OVERLAPPING AND CUTTING EACH
OTHER OFF

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF A TAPE BEING PLACED

IN A RECORDER

Police Investigator: The time is 11:37 am, recording at Walton Lane Police station I’m
here with Ann and Robert Thompson. Can you
state your name and age for the records please
Robert?

ROBERT: (clearly frightened)My name is Robert Thompson and I’m ummm

10 years old.

POLICE INVESTIGATOR: Robert, you know why you’re here?

ROBERT: I think so.

POLICEMAN: Why are you here Robert?

ROBERT: Because you think I took him, that boy, that kid

Policeman: And did you?

ROBERT: No, I didn’t.

POLICEMAN: But you were there, at the mall?

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF A BUSY MALL, WITH

MUSIC UNDERPLAYING THE SHOPPERS

Scene 2: INT – SHOPPING MALL – DAY

SOUND EFFECT: JON AND ROBERT ARE AT THE MALL.

SOUNDS OF THEM STEALING
BATTERIES AND PAINT, GIGGLING AS
THEY DO SO.
SHOP KEEPER: Hey get back here right now (SOUNDS OF
FOOTSTEPS RUNNING OUT OF THE
STORE, LAUGHING)

ROBERT: Jon look at that kid.

JON: What about him?

ROBERT: Lets take him.

JON: Wha’, why?

ROBERT: I dunno, just take him for a walk

JON: What about them two then, over there in TJ.

MUSIC LOW AND OMINIOUS

NARRATOR: The two boys made their attempt. Making their

way to TJ Hughes department store situated
right at the heart of The New Strand Shopping
Mall. Their faces look innocent and genuine,
walking over casually.

JON: Hey la, come here quick we have something for

you

ROBERT: (THE SOUND OF RUSTLING FROM A

POCKET) Look, we have this lollipop for you.

SOUND EFFECT THE SOUND OF BABY FOOTSPEPS AS

THE MUSIC BECAOMES LOUDER AND
MORE DEFINED. JON AND ROBERT
LAUGH

MUM OF CHILD: Daisy come here now, where’s your brother

Daisy?

DAISY: Gone outside with the boy.

MUM: What boy?

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF RUNNING AND HEAVY

BREATHING AS SHE RUNS OUT THE
STORE AND SEES HER CHILD WITH JON
AND ROBERT

NARRATOR: By mere luck the boy was saved from the

Venables and Thompson. Flurrying away from
the scene, the two boys ran away laughing and
 joking. The saviour of this boy however only
sealed the fate for young Jamie Bulger.

SCENE 3: INT - POLICE STATION– DAY

MUSIC: WORRYING AND DANGER WARNING

POLICEMAN: The time is 10:13am. Recording at Lower Lane

Police Station. Can you please state your name
and age Jon.

JON: Jon Venables and I’m ten years old.

POLICEMAN: Jon, you know you have to tell us everything,

and that everything you say must be true, don’t
you?

JON: Yes.

POLICEMAN: Good. Why do you think I want to talk to you?

JON: About that kid..

POLICEMAN: Yes?

JON: That kid that someone took and killed..

POLICEMAN: Yes?

JON: (PANICKED NOW) I didn’t do it. I don’t

know nothing.

POLICEMAN: It’s okay Jon, let’s not talk about that now. I
want to talk about something else.

POLICEMAN: Do you know what truth is Jon?

JON: Yes.

POLICEMAN: Tell me what truth is.

JON: That you’ve done something wrong, and it’s

true.

POLICEMAN: And if you lie about something you’ve done?

JON: I don’t know.

POLICEMAN: What does it mean to lie?

JON: I don’t know.

POLICEMAN: Is it wrong to lie?

JON: Yes.

POLICEMAN: And if I say your face is green and your hair is

pink, is that a lie?

JON: Yeah.

POLICEMAN: So, you know what a lie is?

JON: Yeah.

SCENE 4: INT – SHOPPING MALL – DAY

MUISC: DANGER WARNING MUSIC

NARRATOR: As the two boys ran away, laughing at the fact

they nearly got caught. Their sadistic smile
beams across their face. One got away but one
will not. The monsters are still yet to be
unleashed.

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUNDS OF SHOPPING AND THE

MALL, SMALL GIGGLES CAN BE HEARD

JON: That was a close one. Should we go back to

school?

ROBERT: Why? We are just gonna get in trouble. Let’s

carry on.

JON: Fine.

NARRATOR: The two boys wonder around the shopping mall

continuing to cause chaos. Going past a store,
they see a young boy alone as his mums paying.
Without a moment’s hesitation, JON takes the
boys hand and leads him out the shop and out
of the shopping centre with Robert beside him.

SCENE 5 – EXT – CANAL – DAY

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF CARS DRIVING PAST

WITH THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS AS
 THE TWO BOYS DRAG ALONG THE
YOUNG CHILD.

JAMIE: (CRYING)I want to go home

JON: We are just taken you to your mum.

JAMIE: Where’s my mummy?

ROBERT: We are finding her.

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF WATER RUNNING AND

BOAT ENGINGES AS THEY ENTER THE
CANAL

ROBERT: look into the water. There’s something in there.

JAMIE: Mummy told me not to go near water.

ROBERT: Go to the edge now.

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF JON STRIKING THE

CHILD TO HIS KNEES IN HOPE HE
WOULD FALL INTO THE CANAL AND
DROWN. THE SOUND OF CRYING COMES
FROM YOUNG JAMIE.

ROBERT: Whhhat you do that for? I-I didn’t want him to

actually go in

JON: Robert take his aram and drag him here, I know
somewhere to find his mummy.

SCENE 6: INT – POLICE STATION – DAY

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF A TAPE RECORDER IS

ROLLING WITH THE SOUND OF PEN
WRTITING ON PAPER.

POLICEMAN: Robert, which one of you had a tin of paint?

ROBERT: We didn’t have no tin of paint.

POLICEMAN: We know you had a tin of paint.

ROBERT: No.
POLICEMAN: There was paint on your clothes. You were with
Jon all the time, wernt you?

ROBERT: Yes.

POLICEMAN: Do you know what happens with paint?

ROBERT: It splashes.

POLICEMAN: And more, one drop..

ROBERT: You use paint to paint things.

POLICEMAN: Tiny, tiny drops, you cant even see them, can
splash and..

ROBERT: If you have a magnifying glass.

POLICEMAN: Yes, a magnifying glass, or something that

makes it even easier to see..

ROBERT: What?

POLICEMAN: Its possible to identify certain paints, like the

paint from that little tin you had that day/ You
where with Jon the whole time, weren’t you.

ROBERT: Yeah.

POLICEMAN: And Jon had paint on his Jacket?

ROBERT: I dunno.
POLICEMAN: He did, and you may have got paint on your
jacket too. Where did the paint come from?

ROBERT: Mum is painting my room.

POLICEMAN: This isn’t wall paint. Do you think it might be

the same paint we found on the little boy?

ROBERT: I dunno.

POLICEMAN: Think carefully Robert, it’s really important

you tell us the truth.

ROBERT: (CRYING) You’re trying to say I killed him.

You’re trying to make me say I killed him.
SCENE 7: EXT – RAILWAY TRACKS – DAY

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF TRAINS PASSING ON

THE RAILWAY LINE. JAMIE CAN BE
HEARD CRYING.

JON: Hahaha Robert look at him he’s crying again.

Robert watch this.

SOUND EFFECT: JON TAKES THE TIN OF PAINT AND

THROWS IT IN HIS EYE. THE SOUND OF
PAINT HITTING HIS EYE MAKES HIM
SCREAM AND CRY EVEN MORE.

JON: Pick up that stone and through it at him.

ROBERT: Why?

JON: It’s funny when he cries

SOUND EFFECT: THE SOUND OF THE ROCK BEING

PICKED UP AND THROWN AT JAMIE
HITTING HIM IN THE HEAD.

ROBERT: Like that?

JON: What about that one over there, the bigger one.
NARRATOR: Jamie tried to get up. His bruised and broken
young body trying to hold his weight, fighting
against the unbeatable fight. The two boys
tower over him like two teachers at school.

ROBERT: Lie down you bloody idiot.

SOUND EFFECT: ONE OF THE BOYS CAN BE HERAD

GRABBING A LARGE METALLIC POLE
OFF THE GROUND, HE SWINGS IT AND
YOU CAN HEAR IT SMASH AGAINT
JAMIES HEAD. THE TWO BOYS RUN
AWAY AS YOU CAN HEAR THEIR
FOOTSTEPS RUNNING.

SCENE 8: INT – POLICE STATION – DAY

SOUND EFFECT: WE CAN HEAR POLICE SIRENS IN THE

BACKGROUND VERY FAINTLY AND THE
SOUND OF A DOOR SHUTTING AND A
 CHAIR SCRAPING ACROSS THE FLOOR
AS SOMEONE PULLS IT BACK TO SIT
DOWN

POLICEMAN: A while ago you where talking to your mum

and then you asked to talk to me and my
colleague. Is that right?

JON: Yeah.

POLICEMAN: And what did you tell us?

JON: That I killed the kid.

NARRATOR: This was it. What the police and authorities

needed. A confession recorded for the death of
a 2 year old boy. A murder so monstrous, so
vile, the only question left to ask is why.

POLICEMAN: I want you to start from the very beginning, tell

us everything you can remember Jon.

Jon’s Mother: (STARTING TO CRY) No not one more.

Don’t make me listen to it. I cant listen to it
anymore.

JON: Mum-m-my??(GETTING SCARED NOW)

JONS MOTHER: I cant do it, not for any longer.

POLICEMAN: We need at least one parent to be present

please.

JONS FATHER: I’ll be here

POLICEMAN: Do you remember when you came up to the

railway tracks, you had walked the little boy
there with you, hadn’t you?

JON: Yeah.

POLICEMAN: Were you tired?

JON: No, not really. He might have been but we

weren’t tired.

POLICEMAN: After you took the boy up to the tracks, what

happened next, what did you and Robert do
next.
JON: Robert threw paint in his face.

POLICEMAN: Was it the paint you stole from the shops, the
blue one?

JON: Yeah.

POLICEMAN: Why did he throw the paint at the little boy Jon.

JON: I don’t know.

POLICEMAN: Did he throw the paint at his eye. Can you point
at the eye you think he threw it in for me Jon?

JON: That one.

POLICEMAN: My left eye?

JON: Yes.

POLICEMAN: What did the little boy do when Robert threw

the paint at his eye.

JON: Blubbered.

POLICEMAN: Blubbered?

JON: Balled and cried. His eyes where open.

POLICEMAN: That must of hurt him, wouldn’t it. Made his

eyes sting. What happened next then Jon?

JON: I don’t know, he just carried on crying and

blubbering everywhere. Then Robert asked him
if it hurt, if his head hurt so he said we will put
a plaster on it but he just got a big brick and
threw it at his head.

POLICEMAN: Did you throw any rocks Jon?

JON: I only threw little rocks, but I never hit him I

swear. I just threw them next to him to- to

POLICEMAN: To what Jon?

JON: Scare him I guess.

POLICEMAN: Okay Jon. What happened next, did he try to

get up?
JON: Yeah but Robert threw another one at his head.
It made his nose bleed. He didn’t want to stay
down, he just kept on getting up.

POLICEMAN: Did Robert say anything to him when he got

up?

JON: He said ‘lie down you bloody idiot’.

SOUND EFFECT: The sound becomes silent as the music begins

to fade out and become total silence. The sound
of a judge ruling the court closed with a
hammer hitting the wooden pallet. The sound of
iron bars shutting and closing in prison.

NARRATOR: That was it. The cased closed. The questions

answered but only family still had questions.
The bulger family asked why. What was it that
caused these two children to commit such
heinous crimes. Was it there upbringing, their
nurture or was it a born evil. Children born
from Satan. Their evil shattered the hearts
across the country, making people reimagine
what really is capable of children. Jamie Bulger
was only 2 years old. He’s life was short but
incredibly loved by many. After years of
wondering, this is Jamie Bulger: Case
Uncensored.