According to the news item, when was James murdered?

Most of the front pages of Tuesday morning’s British newspapers have emotional pictures of the funeral of a two-year-old James Boulger. His murder in Liverpool with which two ten-year-olds have been charged sparked nation wide revulsion against violent crime. The Times has a picture of policemen wiping away tears outside the church where the service took place. The Today newspaper says seventeen days ago James was an unknown two-year-old from a poor unemployed family. But the paper says the message of the murder has swept across a shaken and guilty nation to the farthest points of the globe.