The image of the two-year old, which was seared into the public appears as a grainy visual clue in the game Law and Order: Double or Nothing.
Denise Fergus, James's mother, called for all copies of the game, which is based on the US television drama Law and Order, to be scrapped. She also complained to its manufacturer, Global Software, demanding that the image be removed and appealed for anyone who owns the game to destroy it. "It dehumanises the memory of my lovely son I want it stopped immediately. What on earth were they thinking when they did this beggars belief," she said.
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10, lured James from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in February 1993 and walked him to a railway line before killing him. While the computer game was first published in 2003, Ms Fergus had only recently become aware of that the image had been used.
Thompson and Venables spent eight years in youth custody after being convicted of the toddler's murder.
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Date Published: June 20, 2007
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