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Career criminal, 44, who discovered body of James Bulger on railway line when he was just 14 dies in jail cell
A CAREER criminal who discovered the body of James Bulger on a railway line when he was just 14 has died in a jail cell.
James Riley, 44, “went off the rails” after the horror find three decades ago, his loved ones say.
James Riley found the body of a murdered tot when he was 14, which was said to have tragically changed the path of his life[/caption]
Riley and his brother found two-year-old James Bulger’s body on railway tracks in 1993[/caption]
He was said to have spiralled into a life of crime after discovering the body of the murdered tot in 1993.
And last week Riley, who was nicknamed Osty, was found dead on his police cell floor, MailOnline reported.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed it was investigating his death.
As youngsters Riley, his brother Terence and their pals found the body of two-year-old James on train tracks in Liverpool, Merseyside.
The boy had been murdered by then-10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, in a brutal killing that shocked the nation.
In the years that followed Riley turned to drugs, leading to a life of crime.
His family said he struggled with addiction, and racked up more than 40 convictions, after the grim discovery.
Riley’s lawyer Brendan Carville, defending, once told a court: “The horror of what he found on that occasion with his brother and two friends is something he has lived with ever since.
“Rather than taking advantage of counselling and the like he turned to alcohol and drugs.”
In 2003, a decade after the death of James, Riley’s grandmother spoke about the brothers’ find.
She said: “Neither has spoken of it. They bottled it up. We tried to get the boys to talk about it, but they used to become hysterical, screaming they didn’t want to think about it.
“After that day James went off the rails and Terence’s personality changed totally. We hardly see him these days, but we know it was finding James’ body that changed him.
“Every night I pray for little James, but I also pray for my grandsons.”
In 2010, Riley appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for theft – and blamed the grim find of the toddler’s body for how his life had panned out.
Rather than taking advantage of counselling and the like he turned to alcohol and drugs.
Brendan Carville
Yesterday the police watchdog revealed the 44-year-old had been locked up in a cell after being approached by officers at 10pm on March 14.
It said that at 5pm the following day he was found fighting for his life on the floor of his cell.
Paramedics were raced to the station and rushed Riley to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The IOPC sent investigators to the cells to check over CCTV and clips from body-worn cameras.
Catherine Bates, the IOPC Regional Director, said: “This was a tragic incident in which a man has sadly died and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
“Merseyside Police referred this matter to us, and as he was in the custody of police at the time he became unwell, it is important there is a thorough and independent investigation.
“We will examine all relevant matters including the interaction officers had with the man on the street, and what happened after he arrived at the custody suite.
“We have made contact with his family to explain our role and will update them as our enquiries progress.”
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Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme ‘for encouraging far-right sympathies’
SOME of the UK’s most beloved TV shows have been flagged by counter terror programme Prevent.
Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as “encouraging far-right sympathies”.
Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo was among the materials flagged by Prevent for ‘promoting right-wing extremism’[/caption]
The list also included the works of William Shakespeare[/caption]
Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of “key texts” for white supremacists.
A report by the programme’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted “reading lists” on online chat boards.
The document shared a list of these “important texts” under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.
Works from BBC’s 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings.
House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was “a joke” and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: “This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.
“It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers.”
Meanwhile, noted author and Sun columnist Douglas Murray was shocked to discover that one of his own books had been flagged.
He wrote in The Spectator: “A number of books are singled out, the possession or reading of which could point to severe wrongthink and therefore potential radicalisation… It seems that RICU is so far off-track that it believes that books identifying the problem that it was itself set up to tackle are in fact a part of the problem.”
He called the report “pathetic” and called for “sackings by the score” over its unusual findings.
The list comes after a damning review into Prevent by William Shawcross.
Mr Shawcross found that the scheme applied a “double standard” to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues.
His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that “fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether”.
It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having “defined right-wing extremism too broadly” in a way that included the “respectable Right and the centre-Right”.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “The Home Secretary made clear that Prevent will now ensure it focuses on the key threat of Islamist terrorism, as well as remaining vigilant on emerging threats.
“We’ve accepted all 34 recommendations [from the Shawcross report] and are committed to protecting our country from the threat posed by terrorism.”
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RAILGRADE is a railway management puzzler that’s a train set for your inner child
^Stay tuned after the ads for my full RAILGRADE review and enjoy some beautiful ultrawide footage while you’re at it.
It’s not often that video games set out to mimic small things. Photorealism tends to depict the world at a scale that humans can walk around in. But, swivelling a macro-lens onto that Unreal Engine camera and pointing it at digital miniatures produces a wonderful effect that makes RAILGRADE’s otherwise fairly standard route plan puzzling an absolute joy to get stuck into.
In short, it’s transportive. For me, it throws me right back to my childhood bedroom, where a constantly reconfigured TOMY train set enjoyed permanent residence on the floor, forever delivering assorted handfuls of lego bricks between the Ghostbusters fire station and a permanently downed Star Trek: The Next Generation shuttlecraft. Who knows why. The mind of a ten year-old is unknowable, even if you were one.