A RELATIVE of one of James Bulger’s killers has sparked fury by putting a photo online showing a child lying on railway lines.

The staged picture of a boy with his eyes closed holding a stuffed toy was shared on Facebook to mock Robert Thompson in a family feud.

Thompson, now 36, and Jon Venables were both ten when they abducted, tortured and murdered James, two.

They placed his body on a railway line in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.

They were released from jail with new identities in 2001.

The sickening photo, removed after two days, has been blasted by James’s furious dad Ralph Bulger.

He confided to friends: “Posting a photo of a child on a train track is utterly sick.

"It’s cruel and nasty and pokes fun at how my son died.

"How am I supposed to feel at James being the butt of a social media prank?

"How dare this family treat my son and his murder with such contempt.

“My son died at the hands of Thompson and Venables.

"He died a petrified baby screaming and crying for his parents.

“They showed him no mercy and lay his body on a track to be cut in half by a train.

"I live with that every single day of my life and now it’s being used as bait between Thompson and a relative.”

Friends say the photo was shared by an angry relative of Thompson to mock him over the murder.

One pal said: “From what I understand, they had a row.

"The photo was a way of sticking two fingers up at Robert.”