To see his little face moving when he's no longer here is disgusting

Family's agony over disturbing Al images of murdered toddler

- PAUL BYRNE and BEN GRIFFITHS

SICK TikTok videos of James Bulger only deepen the unimaginable heartache his family have suffered since the toddler was murdered, his distraught mum said yesterday.

Denise Fergus blasted AI-generated images of the two-year-old that she says exploit his shocking killing at the hands of 10-year-old thugs Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. And she pleaded with the platform to take them down.

Dozens of creepy clips show animated children telling viewers: "Hello, my name is James Bulger." The cartoon-style characters give details of his 1993 abduction and murder. James' body was found by a railway and many of the TikTok images show the avatar by train tracks.

They are part of a disturbing series of videos showing fake versions of missing or murdered kids, including Madeleine McCann, Baby P and Rhys Jones. Some have been viewed tens of thousands of times and come with no content warning. Denise, 55, said she was particularly upset with appears to be a close copy of a photo of James, with his lips moving.

She added: "It is one thing to tell the story, I have not got a problem with that. Everyone knows the story of James anyway.

"But to actually put a dead child's face, speaking about what happened to him, is absolutely disgusting.