James Riley suffered from PTSD after discovering James' body on a railway line in 1993 when he was just 14
A "traumatised" man who discovered James Bulger's body when he was a teenager died in police custody this month. James Riley, 44 was approached by Merseyside Police on Scotland Road on March 14 at around 9:45pm.
The toddler was tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, known as Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, in one of the most heartbreaking crimes that Merseyside has ever seen. In February 1993, grainy CCTV images showed two-year-old James being led out of Bootle's Strand shopping centre where he had been shopping with his mum.
“It was an event I suggest that meant he is suffering from PTSD, though not diagnosed. He never sought counselling he tells me. That led him at 14 to try crack cocaine and his problems really spiralled from thereon in.”
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