Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks will delete some of their scenes revolving around a child abduction plot, after the mum of Jamie Bulger objected to their content.

Soap bosses had planned for Loretta (Melissa Walton) to be outed as a child killer with a new identity, after her accomplice unexpectedly turned up in Chester.

However Denise Fergus, the mother of the little boy murdered by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables in 1993, has objected to the storyline.

Clickliverpool.com reported that Denise and her husband were invited to a private screening of four episodes by Channel 4.

Denise said: “It was constructive meeting and I accept what they told me – that there was never any intention on the part of Hollyoaks to copy or mirror events surrounding James’ death.

“Having said that, there was no doubt in my mind that the plot carried some of the hallmarks of what happened to that evil pair after they were convicted of murdering James.

“The part that I found most disturbing was that there were scenes in which two child killers were seen to be giving each other sympathy.”

A spokesman for Lime Pictures said:”This particular storyline was not based on any real-life case and was not intended to recreate actual events. However after conversations with Denise Fergus we have agreed to amend certain aspects of the storyline.”