<P> 1 . The murder of Victoria Climbié; eight - year - old Victoria Climbie died in November 2000 following a campaign of horrendous abuse at the hands of her aunt and her aunt's partner in North London, where she was being raised by her relative under the wishes of her parents, who felt that she would have a better education in England than in her native Ivory Coast . </P> <P> 2 . The Omagh Bombing; in August 1998, a terrorist bomb explodes in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh, killing 29 people (including a pregnant woman) and injuring many others . A Republican terrorist organisation calling themselves the "Real IRA" later claims responsibility for the atrocity . </P> <P> 3 . The "Crossbow Cannibal" (Stephen Griffiths); between June 2009 and May 2010, three women are brutally murdered in Bradford, West Yorkshire. 41 - year - old local man Stephen Griffiths is then arrested and admits the murders at his trial in December that year . He is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released . </P> <P> 4 . The murder of James Bulger; in February 1993, a toddler goes missing when shopping with his mother at a Merseyside shopping centre . His mutilated body is found on a railway line two days later . A CCTV image shows James being led away by two older boys, which quickly leads the police to two 10 - year - old local boys, who are soon charged with the murder . The two boys are found guilty of the murder nine months later and sentenced to be detained for "very, very many years". They are paroled with new identities eight years later, but in 2010 one of the killers Jon Venables, by now in his late twenties, is returned to prison for breaching his licence conditions after being found possessing child pornography . </P>

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