'James Bulger killer 'back in jail after being caught with abuse images again'

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Jon Venables, one of two boys convicted of the murder of toddler James Bulger, has reportedly been returned to prison again after he was caught with child abuse images for a second time.
Venables was 10 when he was jailed in 1993 alongside his friend Robert Thompson for murdering two-year-old James. He was released on licence in 2001 but returned to jail in 2010 for possessing indecent images of children.
According to the Sun, the 35-year-old was once again arrested last week after officials found indecent material on a computer during a routine check at his home.


Venables is subject to life-long licence conditions for his role in James’s murder. A source close to the investigation told the Sun: “It’s all about protecting the public.
“We have these systems so those who could be a risk to the public are picked up. That’s what happened here.”
As reports of the arrest emerged on Wednesday night, Bulger’s mother Denise Fergus tweeted: “Here we go again.”
Bulger was beaten to death by the two boys after being led away from his mother while at a shopping centre. The killing provoked national horror and anger.
Upon sentencing in 1993, Venables and Thompson were ordered to be detained without limit. The judge said the boys were guilty of an act of “unparalleled evil and barbarity” and suggested “violent video films” might have been partly to blame for the crime.
After serving eight-year sentences, Venables and Thompson were released with new identities in 2001. Following a threat by James’s father, Ralph, to hunt down his son’s killers, both won a high court order protecting their anonymity for life.
Venables went on to offend again, including arrests for affray and possession of cocaine in 2008. In 2010, he was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to downloading images of child abuse.
Venables, who was reportedly given a second new identity after his first alias was revealed, was granted parole in 2013.
In response to his latest reported offending, a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: “We do not comment on individuals.”


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/23/james-bulger-killer-jon-venables-back-in-jail-after-being-caught-with-abuse-images-again

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Yeah I read this last night, he needs a fucking bullet through his head.

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Beyond help the sick fuck, they should just let a few other inmates "accidentally" bump into him and do everyones wallet a massive favour


High cost of failure


DESPITE huge opposition, both Thompson and Venables were released under strict conditions in 2001 and given new identities.
Since being freed, Venables alone is thought to have cost the public around £5 million.
The total includes an estimated £1.5 million to create a complicated “legend” for at least two new identities and expert help to live in total secrecy.
A further £1.5 million is believed to have been lavished on keeping him in a young offenders’ institution for eight years before his first release in 2001.
At least £100,000 a year was then spent monitoring Venables for a decade after his initial release.
And his three years in a category A prison is now known to have cost at least £500,000.
Two complex parole hearings, a Crown Court hearing and an independent review by Sir David Omand in 2010 add at least another £250,000.

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It's a bit of a dead end road droning on about what he has cost in taxpayers money. In the overall scheme of things, it really is peanuts. The government in the UK spends in the trillions every year .... a few million quid is neither here nor there.

The real issue is about his recividism and his failure to become rehabilitated. People who argue the toss about criminals like this are really objecting to the attempt to rehabilitate rather than to punish serious offenders.

They may as well be open about it, rather than going down the dead end that is money.

He is undoubtedly a sick puppy. There will be some causes for that, but nobody is interested.

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He's had more than enough chances & he's blown it.

This sick bar steward should not see the light of day again.

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He was 10 years old when he did it. A very troubled, sick and/or evil child who has been in an institution most of his life. He has had plenty of support to go on the straight and narrow but if you breach your conditions you go back in. It is his fault.