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I shy away from hyperbole and pointless outrage, but this is just getting ridiculous.
Hard not to be outraged
I shy away from hyperbole and pointless outrage, but this is just getting ridiculous.
How is it that people can view photos of murder victims (Travis Alexander, Nicole Simpson etc.) on websites, but yet there is not one picture of these killers on the internet. Trust me, I've looked for photos of Venables and Thompson as adults. There is nothing there. Why are they soooooo protected. This guy is a danger to society. I want to know what he looks like in case he ever crosses my path. Not because I want to kill him, but I want to protect myself.
There was a court injunction granted by the High Court in 2001 preventing publication of anyone's picture with the claim that they are Jon Venables or Robert Thompson. This was granted after the police investigated death threats against them from various quarters and found them to be credible. The reason it was granted is to protect not only T and V from being murdered but also any other young man who could be mistaken for one of them, or falsely accused of being one of them.
The penalty for Contempt of Court in the UK is up to two years in prison and an unlimited fine. I suppose you're not finding pictures of random 31 year old men with the accusation that they are T or V because Dominic Grieve, the current Attorney General, has already prosecuted people for breaking it and has announced his intention to continue doing so if necessary.
One of Jamie Bulger's killers was rehoused to a bail hostel just a few yards from a children's play ground, it has been claimed.
Jon Venables, 31, was released from prison in August this year with a fourth new identity after being hauled back to prison in 2010 for possessing child *advertiser censored*.
But now it's been claimed that authorities housed him in a bail hostel somewhere in the north of England, a short distance from a playground, to prepare him for life in the community.
The revelation provoked fury from Jamie Bulger's father.
A man who tweeted images purporting to be of James Bulger's killer Jon Venables as an adult has been given a 14-month suspended prison sentence.
The term, suspended for 15 months, was handed down at London's high court for a flagrant contempt of court on the part of 27-year-old security guard James Baines. Baines, who is from Liverpool and close to the Bulger family, will also have to pay £3,000 in costs.
The News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire was paid at least £13,500 to research the two schoolboy murderers of James Bulger the year they were to be released from prison, the Old Bailey heard.
They never should have been named publically in the first place IMO. Juveniles as young as ten usually aren't named no matter what crime they've committed, and when the judge made an exception in this case it simply resulted in a campaign of demonisation by the tabloid press which placed their lives in danger. The tax payer then had to fork out for new identities to restore the anonymity which most juveniles already have.
It would have been better to have handled it the same way as the more recent case in Doncaster where the judge barred the press from naming the two children. They're both up for parole next year, and I bet if they get released you'll hear virtually nothing about it.
I don't agree. At 10, a child knows the difference between right and wrong. I would agree if there was an accident, but to brutally beat or torture a small child to death requires a level of depravity that, IMO, they won't grow out of. They are a danger to society and people should be warned as to their whereabouts.
UK police have brought prosecutions in several cases recently, where abuse has been tweeted at victims or their families, so I'm confident they'll find and charge this one.
It will be interesting to find out who it is - some of those tweets are disturbing. If the twitter's name is not released, I know what I will start to think.....
A man has been jailed for stalking the mother of the murdered toddler James Bulger.
Howard Wilson, 56, was jailed for 26 weeks by district judge Mark Hadfield, who also made him the subject of an indefinite restraining order that bars him from ever approaching Denise Fergus, her husband or her three sons.
Wilson, who appeared in the dock at Sefton magistrates court wearing a mauve tracksuit and trainers, smiled as the sentence was passed. He told the judge: “Thanks for giving me what I want.”
Jon Venables, one of the infamous killers of toddler James Bugler, is back in jail after being caught with child *advertiser censored*.
The 35-year-old was arrested last week after officials making a routine visit to his home discovered the 'sickening' images on his computer and alerted police...
I wonder how many chances they're going to give this guy before they finally lock him up for good.
'If I'd turned right instead of left, I'd have saved his life': James Bulger's mother reveals her biggest regret as she relives every shattering moment of her son's murder for the first time 25 years on
Friday, February 12, 1993, a freezing cold winters day, started just like any other with no hint of what was to come.