In an interview with The Times last weekend, Atkinson said Bulger's killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson "shouldn't have been tried in an adult court because they were still children".
She added: "In most Western European nations they have a completely different way of intervening with youngsters who've committed crime. Most of their approaches are more therapeutic, more family and community-based, more about reparation than simply locking somebody up."
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