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A computer game that featured a CCTV image of James Bulger being abducted has been withdrawn by its distributors.

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'Law and Order: Double or Nothing' showed a picture of the two-year-old being led away from a Merseyside shopping centre by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

A fictional detective in the game then refers to the abduction when he asked gamers to solve a kidnapping.

James' mother, Denise Fergus, complained to the game's manufacturers.

She told Sky News the use of her son's murder in a computer game was "below contempt".

"Using that terrible picture of James as part of a game is sick," she said.
"It dehumanises the memory of my lovely son. To use him in a game is below contempt."

The CCTV image, which was taken at the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle in 1993, can be seen pinned to wall of a police station.

In it, James can be seen being led away to his death by the two 10-year-olds.
He was then battered to death on a railway line.

Thompson and Venables were convicted of murder and pair spent eight years in youth custody before being released in 2001 with new identities.

The California-based developer of Law and Order: Double of Nothing, Legacy Interactive, is reported to have apologised for the distress caused and said the photograph would be removed from future copies.

The game has been withdrawn from sale by its UK distributor Global Software.

A company statement said: "It has come to our attention that there may be a image in the game that causes offence.

"As such we have decided to cease selling the game until a full investigation is carried out."
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More controversy to try and sell a game? I have to say that this to me really is below the belt, as if the family of James Bulger haven't suffered enough, they have to go through some sick stunt like this, something that could so easily have been changed. I read a book a few months ago that depicted two young boys abducting a child, and it was very reminiscent of the Bulger case, but done with taste, and was there an issue? No, of course not. But to use an actual abduction picture in such a way is damn disrespectful, and could so easily have been either drawn to be different or indeed retaken with different people, neither of which would have caused offence.
 
Pretty sure they weren't trying to be contraversial to sell the game, they were just ignorant of what the image was.
 
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