James Bulger (pictured) was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993
The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has condemned the director of a new film about her son's killers for not consulting her first.
Denise Fergus has asked the public to boycott Detainment, a 30-minute film about her two-year-old son's murder.
It is made up of almost entirely of verbatim quotes from interview transcripts and shows 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson crying and asking for their parents as detectives quiz them over James's death.
Today she appeared on ITV's Loose Women to express her shock and disappointment director Vincent Lambe had made the film without speaking to her family about it.
She said: 'It takes you right back to that day.
'I have three young men I'm caring for now and we've got a charity. I just don't want to keep going back there all the time.
'James’s family should have been consulted. In my own personal opinion I think he's just trying to big his career up.
'And to do that under someone else’s grief is just unbelievable and unbearable.'
The filmmaker revealed that the movie was made without the consent of James' mother Denise Fergus as she would have said 'no'
Mrs Fergus's son was killed by Thompson and Venables after they snatched him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside in 1993.
She says she is devastated the film has been shortlisted for an Oscar and claims 'it shouldn't have been made in the first place'.
She added: 'I want something put in place so other families don't have to go through this.'
Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Mr Lambe admitted he hadn't consulted Mrs Fergus.
In a statement to Loose Women he apologised for any distress caused and offered to meet with her, as well as donating proceeds from ticket sales to the James Bulger Foundation.
But Mrs Fergus said: 'He’s saying they're human beings and we should try to understand why they did it, but so was James, and they took that human being from his parents.
'I think that the way he’s done it, they’re trying to get sympathy.
Venables (left) and Thompson (right), played by child actors in the film, were both 10-years-old when they shocked Britain by abducting James, then just two-years-old
'Everyone knows they tried to abduct a girl before they took James. James would have been married now with his own kids.'
'No I wouldn’t meet with him. It’s way too late.'
It comes after James's father, Ralph Bulger, went on TV to condemn the film.
Mr Bulger, who claimed he found it 'offensive', said that nobody behind the making of the drama contacted him or any one else in James' family prior to the release of the film.
Although James' father said he has seen many documentaries about the murder which happened 26 years ago he told the Mirror he has been left devastated by this latest portrayal.
He said: 'I have never been so cut up and offended by something that shows so little compassion to James and his family.
'I accept this is a murder of such magnitude it will always be written about and featured in the news but to make a film so sympathetic to James's killers is devastating.
The father of the murdered toddler, Ralph Bulger, has spoken of his devastation that producers have released a film about his son's killing without the family's consent
He said that although he accepts the information surrounding the brutal killing is in the public domain, he could have at least run the idea by the family.
Mr Bugler added that it will be terrible if the film is critically acclaimed due to the lack of consideration shown to the family when making the drama.
The former police chief who ran the investigation into James' death, Albert Kirby, said that the film lacks 'any form of taste or decency', and has been created without consideration for James' mother Denise Fergus or anyone close to the case.
When Lambe appeared on Good Morning Britain to defend his right to make the short film, he was grilled by co-presenters Ben Shepherd and Kate Garraway over the decision, admitting that the film would be a 'tough watch for them'.
They asked him several times why he had failed to notify Denise of his attention to make the film.
Vincent Lambe appeared on Good Morning Britain to defend his right to make the short film Detainment, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award
Asked if he did not ask the family as he feared they would say not to make the film, he said: 'Well it probably wouldn't have been made if she'd have said "no".'
He added: 'The reason I made this film, people think they were evil and they were born evil and I don't think it was as simple as that.
'If people don't see them as human, they won't begin to understand.
'It is a short film, it is not a film I made to profit from financially, I was as surprised as anyone when it was shortlisted for the Oscars.'
Ben replied: 'For them, the idea of you making this film, which is about what happened to their small child, is abhorrent, undoubtedly.
'There argument will be that "you didn't contact us, you didn't ask us, you didn't talk to us about it".'
Mr Lambe said: 'I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and when I think about what they've been through it breaks my heart.
He added that the film 'isn't meant to bring anymore anguish' to the family, causing Ben to retort: 'You don't think it will?'
'Well I think it will be a very difficult watch for them. I hope they understand,' replied Mr Lambe.
Mr Lambe was grilled by co-presenters Ben Shepherd and Kate Garraway over the decision, admitting that the film would be a 'tough watch for them'
'It's still one of those cases that can cause public outrage. At the time, it was just unprecedented.
'People couldn't understand how ten year old boys could do this. If it was an adult who killed the child, people would have moved on.
'It was just so unusual and it’s so deeply ingrained in people's memories.'
Good Morning Britain revealed that Denise had told them she was unhappy that the film was made without her consent and would appear on the show tomorrow.
Venables and Thompson, played by child actors in the film, were both 10-years-old when they shocked Britain by abducting James, then just two-years-old.
The crime made the boys the youngest killers in modern English history and public enemy number one with millions of Brits.
The duo snatched Bulger from outside a butcher's shop in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993, while his mother popped into a store for just a few seconds.
The toddler's mutilated body was found on a railway line in Walton, Liverpool, two days later.
Venables and Thompson were found guilty of killing Bulger in November 1993 and were sentenced to custody until they reached 18.
The toddler's mutilated body was found on a railway line in Walton, Liverpool, two days after he went missing
They were freed in 2001 after serving eight years behind bars, but by 2010 Venables was back in prison for violating the terms of his release by possessing child porn.
It was revealed that he had downloaded and distributed more than 100 images of child abuse, some involving victims as young as two being raped.
In one instance he messaged another paedophile claiming to be a married mother who abused her eight-year-old daughter, and offered to sell access to the child.
He was freed from prison for the second time in 2013 after a recommendation from the Parole Board.
At the time, Denise and Ralph Bulger said they were 'filled with terror' by the decision to grant parole to Venables.
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James Bulger (pictured) was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993
The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has condemned the director of a new film about her son’s killers for not consulting her first.
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