She was buying meat for the Sunday roast and when she looked round, he was gone. He was toddling around the shops with her. She took her almost three year old along. One day a mother and her friend went shopping in a big mall in Bootle, Merseyside. We’re horribly well acquainted with the idea that adults may well want to abduct children or teenagers, so that is why the James Bulger case is the more alarming of the two, and the hardest to think about. They represent parents’ worst nightmare : that if you turn your back for a moment your children will be stolen away and murdered. Two crimes have hypnotised the British public in the last 20 years above all others, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 (this made actual headlines only this past week) and the murder of James Bulger in February 1993. David’s research involved interviews with most of Mandela’s close family and comrades, including Winnie Madikezela-Mandela, and culminated in a meeting with Nelson Mandela himself. The biography was published in 2010 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little Brown in the US. YOUNG MANDELA is the story of the early life of the iconic South African activist and leader who died in 2013. ONE MORNING IN SARAJEVO made a gripping non-fiction thriller out of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in June, 1914: it was published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 2008. SUPPER WITH THE CRIPPENS, about the notorious Edwardian crime was published by Orion in 2005 and is currently in development as a drama series for television. Barry George was convicted and later acquitted of the infamous 1999 shooting of the television presenter on the doorstep of her London home. It was an article for the Magazine that led to his second book, ALL ABOUT JILL: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JILL DANDO, which was published by Little Brown in 2002. He was a local newspaper reporter and wrote for the monthly magazine Esquire before joining The Sunday Times Magazine, for whom he travelled around the world writing cover stories, investigative articles, reportage and profiles. David has a close interest in criminal justice and served five years (2013-2018) as a Commissioner at The Criminal Cases Review Commission, appointed by HM The Queen to oversee investigations into miscarriages of justice.
His first book, THE SLEEP OF REASON - THE JAMES BULGER CASE is in a new edition from Faber (2017) and remains the definitive account of the 1993 murder of a child by two ten year old boys. It is an account of the Maids Moreton case. His latest book LET US PREY - A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND DECEPTION is an Audible Original, available exclusively on Audible read by the author. David James Smith is the author of six acclaimed non-fiction books and is an award-wining journalist for The Sunday Times Magazine of London.
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