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James Bulger Killer Jon Venables On Tabloid Murder Watch

JON Venables news round-up time, readers. Matthew Acton tells NoTW readers, beneath the headline: “Bulger Killer Venables on death watch”:

Child killer Jon Venables has been given TWO burly prison bodyguards to keep him safe from murderous attacks by vengeful lags.

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Hold on a mo’. Venables is under guard from 20 crack screws and in isolation. And the armed cops? In the super-max jail? Now, it’s just two. This sounds more akin to Murder Watch than suicide watch?

And at night a guard is assigned to watch him in his cell via CCTV – in cases he tries to kill himself.

This would be the guard that missed Venables secreting a load of tablets in his “den”?

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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)


Jon Venables’ Co-codamol Suicide Plot

JAMES Bulger killer Jon Venables’ prison cell continues to occupy the tabloids as today we learn of “SUICIDE PILLS” in the “den”. Venabels had 20 “super-strong” co-codamol pills in his bed. These were given to him by prison medics. He had pretended to take them.

Is co-codamol deadly?

Doctors warn that taking too many in too short a time could be fatal.

Well, yes.

Go on, scream readers. Take ‘em. Politicians agree. This is the way out of the mess the Government fed with indecision and a fudge.

The Mirror online bills this as the “SUICIDE FEAR”.

You can feel the fear that Venables will take his own life as the Mirror screams:

“A luxury cell with huge TV, guitar, showers, hi-fi and Nintendo.”

And in case you aren’t sure what to make of it, the Mirror tells you:

“…a move that is bound to infuriate the family of James Bulger, the toddler he and Robert Thompson murdered in 1993 when they were 10.”

No word from them. Yet…

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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (34)


James Bulger: Jon Venables Cackles And Waits For A Conclusion

MORE news on Jon Venables, one of the James Bulger’s killer, who we learn has gone mad in jail. Well, not raving mad. Venables is mad for Harry Potter.

Jon Venables is, says the Sun, “hooked” on the Satanic, paedo-serving boy wizard.

James Bulger’s murderer, 27, has devoured FOUR of the boy wizard novels since being recalled to jail last month.

And this is bad news:

And it has landed him in trouble – after he was fined by bosses for failing to return the books on time.

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Jon Venables reads bestsellers. As ever, when the press labels a killer a monster and evil, is the essentially human things are can be the most unsettling. An adult reading a child’s book could be creepy, were it not for the fact that hundreds of thousands of adults have already done so.

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Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)


James Bulger: Jon Venables Guitar Lessons And An Oasis Wonderwall

JON Venables has a “cushy number”. So says the Sun, which focuses on one of Jamie Bulger’s two killers. Turns out that Venables is getting guitar lessons in jail. And – shock of shocks – he’s not paying for them himself. You’re paying for them. Well, you are if you pay taxes.

Inside, on page 6, and Venables is in his den” – also known as a prison cell in a supermax jail – “strumming” Oasis hits.

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Posted: 9th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (22)


Wayne Vincent Dale Jailed For ‘Exposing’ James Bulger Killer Robert Thompson

JON Venables is in jail. And the armchair detectives get searching for Robert Thompson, who along with Venables killed James Bulger. Wayne Vincent Dale, of the Isle Of Man, tells web sleuths that Thompson is living on his island.

Dale, 19, tells his Facebook friends that Thompson is working at a local superstore, the B&Q , to be exact. Dale is arrested and charged with using provoking behaviour. In court, he pleads guilty.

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Posted: 8th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Jon Venables Seduces Women On Facebook

MORE on one of James Bulger’s killers, Jon Venables, and news of the tautological in the News of The World that “EVIL Jon Venables‘” had a “shocking haul of child porn”. Also, that he was using his real name to try to score a date via the internet.

The story goes that Venables came to the attention of police when he started using his real name on social networking sites, “like Facebook”.

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As source says:

“It was because of this that his computer was seized and the child porn was discovered.”

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Posted: 4th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)


Jon Venables: After The Heated Debate The Cool Dissemble

JON Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, is awaiting the result of the Parole Board to discover his fate. Will he released on license or will he be charged with whatever offence led to his re-incarceration?

The Sun leads with news that Venables will spend at least a year in jail even if he is not convicted of possessing child pornography. The Parole Board will listen to all sides, including the views of James Bulger’s parents, Ralph Bulger and Denise Fergus, eventually.

The Mirror says Venables faces six months inside. The Telegraph says “many months“.

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Posted: 2nd, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (11)


Jon Venables And Child A, The 6-Year-Old Girl Abused By 23 Classmates

JON Venables: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at one of the killer’s of two-year-old James Bulger in the new, featuring Child A,  girl sexually abused for six months by 23 classmates.

The Telegraph brings news of Child A, a girl of six who “suffered months of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of 23 classmates”. Six months, says the story. And, yes, 23 classmates.

Nigel Bunyan has more:

Child A was stripped on a daily basis and routinely assaulted by children of her own age.

But nothing could be done because of “a combination of the children’s young ages and a lack of firm evidence”.

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No evidence of a child stripped and sexually abused by 23 other children on a daily basis? Not one shred of evidence? A review of child A’s case has been published and the key finding is that she “undoubtedly” the victim of sexual abuse.

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Posted: 1st, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)


Crazy Media Beasts ‘Evil’ Jon Venables

THE tabloid beasting of child killer Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s two killers, continues. Today’s News of the World says the 27-year-old had to be restrained after going “crazy” in his jail cell last Tuesday.

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That restraint took four prison officers it is claimed.

The time-line would put the officers’ (alleged) very close and personal hold-down action a full 24 hours before the NoTW’s sister paper The Sun had the recalled from life-licence joint killer of James Bulger being removed from jailed by armed police. In that version he was a ‘monster’.

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Posted: 21st, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (13)


James Bulger: Jon Venables Becomes The Prejudiced Media’s Evil Jon

The Sun’s banner headline today brands Jon Venables as “Evil”

What is not clear is why Jon Venables, 27, who who ten-years-old when in 1993 he killed two-year-old James Bulger along with his pal Robert Thompson, also ten, is particularly worthy of being evil today.

In Pictures: Inside James Bulger Killer Jon Venables’ Prison Cell

Even at the height of the grief and hysteria (yes. a lot of it was) over the dreadful murder,
Venables was regarded as the “lesser” of the two children involved.

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Yesterday The Sun said the recalled from life licence Venables was whisked from a high security prison unit by (said to be) armed policeman who wanted to question him.

A day later:

“JAMES Bulger killer Jon Venables was back in his jail cell last night after being questioned by cops for 24 hours.

“They grilled him about child porn allegations before returning him to his high security prison at around 6am.”

Once Again Deep Throat whispers in a Sun ear:

“A source confirmed: “Venables is back behind bars. He was away from the prison for a whole 24 hours.

“He was brought back by the same armed team who took him away. He looked very tired and has stayed in his cell ever since.”

Venables is in an adult prison for the first time and had been recalled from life-licence for, as yet, unspecified reasons.

The Justice secretary Jack Straw has described the reason as “serious” but no more.

The Sun indicates it knows all and says:

“Child porn carries a term of up to ten years but, if convicted, Venables could face life for breaching his licence terms.”

Jon Venables the man on the way to becoming as hated as……………….

(You try filling tomorrow’s tabloid prejudiced weasel word)

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Posted: 20th, March 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (18)


In Pictures: Inside James Bulger Killer Jon Venables’ Prison Cell

TODAY’S edition of The Sun neatly converts James Bulger’s  ten-year-old child-killer Jon Venables into a 27-year-old monster in three sentences. And this the child killer Venables’ trial brief Laurence Lee says could have been set free within two weeks had it not been for media hysteria.

The front-page headline screams:

“ARMED COPS GRAB BULGER KILLER.”

The is blur of adjectives:

“ARMED cops gave James Bulger killer Jon Venables just five minutes to pack before hauling him away for questioning yesterday.

He gets to pack?

“The monster was seized in a dawn swoop as he lay in his prison bed.”

A raid on man in a super-max prison cell? A man being guarded by 20 crack wardens?  Where was he going to run to?

“Venables, 27, faces a fresh grilling over child porn allegations that saw him recalled to jail this month.”

He’s in jail. Why wold you need guns to grill him? You just open the door…

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The imagery is all there. We know from various informed sources the recalled from life-licence Venables is alternatively,

* “arrogant”
* “tough talking”
* “bragging”
* “stressed”

* Scared

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Posted: 19th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (37)


James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus Gets A Sorry From Maggie Atkinson, The Woman She Wants Fired

MAGGIE Atkinson, the Children’s commissioner admits causing ‘hurt’ caused by saying Jon Venables and Robert Thompson had unfair trial, says the Guardian this afternoon.

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Schools Minister Ed Balls sprang to the defence of his protege Atkinson after her interview with The Times was published on Saturday – the one with the “unpleasant thing“.

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Posted: 17th, March 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment


Clues To Jon Venables’ Identity And James Bulger Story In Pictures

JON Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, has been moved to a “SAFER JAIL”. We know this because the Mirror screams from its front page:

“BULGER KILLER MOVED TO SAFER JAIL”

Safer for whom

James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables

JON Venables has been transferred to a new jail to keep him safe from other prisoners.

That was inevitable. Readers learn that Venables is in isolation. He is guarded by a hand-picked team of 20 prison officers who are “sworn to secrecy”. But this is tabloid nonsense. All prison guards must sign the Official Secrets Act.

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As the prison warden’s exployment contract states:

* All Civil Servants owe duties of confidentiality and loyal service to the Crown. This means that you are required to exercise care in the use of information which you acquire in the course of their official duties and to protect information which is held in confidence. You are also subject to the Official Secrets Act 1911 -1989.

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Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)


James Bulger: Jon Venables Escapes, Child Porn And Hating Maggie Atkinson

JAMES Bulger’s killer Jon Venables will not be charged for possessing “child porn”. This is a “bombshell”. Well, so says the Sunday Mirror on its front page, as we bring your our review of James Bulger in the news:

“Venables to escape child porn trial”

But we never did get to know for sure why Jon Venables was sent back to jail.

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This story was never about the facts – it was about the lack of them.

And what with this beign Mothers’ Day, Sky News focuses on James Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus:

Bulger Mother: ‘Sack Twisted Adviser’

Jo Couzens tells readers:

James Bulger’s mother has called for the Children’s Commissioner to be sacked for “twisted and insensitive” comments about the murder of her two-year-old son.

Dr Maggie Atkinson is a woman in the spotlight by her own choosing. She’s yet another expert with an expert’s opinion. She says 10 – the age Jon Venables was when he killed Bulger – is too young to understand “bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing”. The law says otherwise. Atkinson says the age should be raised to 12. The law says no.

The Ministry of Justice says:

“We believe that children aged 10 and over can differentiate between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing. We do not intend to raise the age of criminal responsibility.”

Oh, and this is the same Dr Atkinson who described the killing and torture of a toddler as “exceptionally unpleasant“.

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That is where the story ends. Although it doesn’t because Denise Fergus, James Bulger’s mother, can be relied upon to be upset – and to offer an opinion.

Here’s Denise Fergus:

“This woman owes James and me an apology for her twisted and insensitive comments. Then she should resign or be sacked.”

This is the Star’s:

“BULGER MUM’S FURY AT CHILD TSAR”

And so it is that we have an official target for our loathing. Dr Atkinson is the official in the wrong. She so wrong that eh must be sacked. But here’s is only one opinion in a sea of nodding heads. Atkinson is no more qualified in law then Denise Fergus is. Says Mrs Fergus:

“It is a shock to people like Dr Atkinson that children can be truly evil by 10. But it is a fact and I fear there will be more of them and we need laws to be tightened up so we can deal with them.”

But is Jon Venables evil?

* James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables has spoken to his mother for the first time since he was returned to prison.The 27-year-old was taken to the jail video suite where he spoke to mum Susan – who has a new identity like her son – via a television link.

Denis Fergus knows what he looks like. Will she tell? And her viw is imporatns. The NoTW says:

Denise and ex husband Ralph would be invited to make a statement to the parole board in the event Venables is referred to them.

And he might be because:

EVIL Jon Venables will escape prosecution for child porn offences but could still spend TEN YEARS in jail without trial.

That is how long the powerful parole board could cage him for breaching the conditions of his release on licence.

The News of the World has learned that Justice Secretary Jack Straw is being pushed by senior advisors to take the “easier option” of leaving the Venables case in the hands of parole chiefs.

The alternative is a trial which could blow Venables’ cover if he has to face charges of possession of Category Four material – one of the worst levels of child porn.

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So ten years. Or as the Express puts it:

JAMES Bulger killer Jon Venables will be free from jail in just 12 months if convicted of alleged child porn offences, it was revealed yesterday.

With so much expert opinion, what to think?

Euan Ferguson is here to help:

I covered the murder, the trial, the 10-year anniversary. I know nothing deep about what happened – how can any of us – but I do know he was called “James” Bulger, never “Jamie”, and I do know that the mob is wrong, and always knows nothing, and we are violently wrong, unforgivably so, to listen to them. When even Harriet Harman can talk about “the court of public opinion”, rightly skewered last week by Matthew Parris (ooh, there are also some grand old maps too in the V&A by his near-namesake, but with the one “r”) as “a disgusting phrase” – when even the highest lawmakers in the land curtsey and slaver to the mob, we are in excitingly fabulous trouble. I don’t know whether the modern hell is worse than the medieval hell. But perhaps it’s time to update Satre. Hell is other people, talking.

David Mitchell adds:

The main reason that Jon Venables’s reincarceration has been all over the papers is that people enjoy reading about it – it’s another episode in a horrific but gripping story. The parts of people’s brains that it engages are, largely, the same parts that are turned on by a harrowing but compelling movie, and not a million miles away from those that flicker into life at an episode of Midsomer Murders.

Anyhow, here’s Peter Hitchens in the Mail:

Most things that are said and written about crime and disorder in Britain are complete tripe…

He doesn’t end it there. But he might. James Bulger was killed. One of his killers is back in jail. And the law is unsure what to do with him. The law, supposed bedrock of society, is unsure what the rules are…

Jon Venables: Vomiting Satan, Evil, Nurture And An ‘Unpleasant’ Thing

The Story so far:

Jon Venables Is An Election Pawn: Labour Fears As Tories Turn Screws

Jon Venables Is A Failure Of Jack Straw’s Law
Jon Venables: Jack Straw Gets Denise Fergus To Be Quiet
Jon Venables Thumb Sucks, Cop Shows And No News
David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables
Jon Venables: The Rapist, The Porn And The Parents
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Life’s Been Hell For Jon Venables, James Bulger’s Killer Accused Of Possessing Child Porn
John Venables ‘Sex Crime’ As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Worked As A Bouncer
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified
Jon Venables’ Girlfriend, A ‘Stabbing’ And A Politically Incorrect Jack Straw
James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables
James Bulger’s Killer Jon Venables: Pictures And Sickening Detail
Jon Venables Saved By The Nanny State
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David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables

Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)


Jon Venables: Vomiting Satan, Evil, Nurture And An ‘Unpleasant’ Thing

JAMES Bulger: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the case of one of James Bulger’s killers Jon Venables in the news. Venables has been in the news ever since the Government issued a press release that he had been arrested and put back in jail.

Daily Mail: “BULGER KILLERS: Freeing them was wrong, says juror”

The Mail shares a few words with Alan Barry, the jury foreman in the James Bulger trial.

Mr Barry, 71, who runs a Christian charity shop, said: “I can still see the photographs of the injuries we had to look at, which were horrendous. It is still so vivid. I am surprised that it was Venables who has reoffended as he was the quieter of the two in the trial — crying into his hankie and looking nervous.”

Juror turns judge:

“The pair should have been sentenced to a lot longer in prison. I, and some of the other jurors, were surprised at what they got. Although they were only ten-year-olds at the time, I believe they knew what they were doing. A sentence like that was ludicrous. And when they were released, they should have been monitored more closely.”

How closely?

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But Thompson and Venables should never have gone to jail at all.

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Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)


Jon Venables Is A Failure Of Jack Straw’s Law

ON the comments pages, Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s two killers, is sparking debate.

Reader Georgina writes:

I think we can safely conclude that the heat is not going to die down under the current arrangements. People have been hunting and fighting this cause for over 17 years now, they and their resolve have matured, they will just get better at it and their will be no peace for anyone.

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Many people would be confronted by giving up the hunt now, it offends our personal integrity I think. I feel it takes a lot of humility and self esteem for some to admit defeat, especially the lawmakers. They set Jon Venables, his family, the community, doctors, police, prison officers, anyone who sounds like Jon, looks like Jon etc, up for hell on earth – so we live in fear, anguish and anger.

What has posttraumatic stress disorder in relation to the management of Venables and Thompson cost so far – and I don’t mean just financially?

Why does Jon Venables live in fear? Lynching probably – that they won’t just kill him, they will do to him what he did to James. I fear it will be an eye for an eye. What an horrific outcome. What dread this conjures up. How many people will be goaled for the bludgeoning of Jon Venables?

How long will the investigation take? How many thousands of people do they intend to interview – the planners, the researcher’s the vigilante’s, the family, public servants and so that even when he is dead? The issue remains festering into history.

Jon and Robert Venables knew what they were doing. We are informed by research that many children understand at various levels the finality of death by the age of 5.
It was not a “clean merciful murder”. The very nature of the killing tells us that.
Perhaps that is where the real damage and hurt has become irreconcilable in the eyes of the people.

Many people I think, never reconcile with the death of a baby/child. It is in our nature to grieve sometimes forever.

Whether we call them “evil”, “mentally ill” or “psychopathic” – whatever “box” we try to put them in – all this is in vain under these current circumstances…

My greatest fear is for the cases of mistaken identity – and the endless anguish, anger, frustration, despair and misery the lawmakers have caused in their futile efforts to try and lessen the turmoil. Instead they have fuelled it and continue to do so. I don’t believe that the people will stop. The momentum is too huge now. What will it take to quieten the hearts of the people ?

Reader AGW responds

There are those who feel justice, retribution and rehabilitation is the sole preserve of the few given salaries so high as to be expected to be perfect in thought, word, deed and above all taints or corruption.

It demonstrates a blind faith in the political and legal system to the point of exclusion of all other cohesive argument, Legitimate questions are dismissed as the baying of a mob which illustrates my original point. Where justice is not seen to be done there is no justice.

It becomes an academic interpretation of standards set by an elite. I am not sure whether that should be classed as an oligarchy or a judicial dictatorship.

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I have not, and would not, suggest that the current situation re Jon Venables’ recall from licence is anything other than difficult. The contention that these difficulties are the fault of the media is clearly an arrant, even arrogant, nonsense and an attempt to coerce others into believing all judgements in this case are erudite and legally and morally correct ones.

I can not argue any point on those judgements since I am not qualified to do so. I happen to believe the anonymity granted to individuals as part of their rehabilitation programmes has now been proved to have been dangerous and an utter failure.

It has damaged the protected ones, it has damaged relatives of victims and it is clearly still damaging third parties. It has also created something I have not seen before. The general public has for years been losing faith in bankers, estate agents and politicians but suddenly there is a realisation that the Law is not all it has been cracked up to be.

It is contended this is the fault of the mob. It is not. It is the inevitable consequence of a judicial decision process and if the academic lawyers among us would care to examine the progression of decisions as far back as, say, the Cleveland Child Abuse Inquiry, there may be a few clues to the process which has led to today’s position.

I will make one final point. If some genuinely believe the freedoms they now enjoy today are there solely because of the judicial and legislative process they are to be pitied. The great unwashed also provided the basis for all legal systems via Common Law. I can’t remember when any major section of Common Law was tampered with, however when the politicians and judges get stuck in, we get Statutory and Case Law and that’s where failures start as adjustments are made to fit the will of the elite.

Generally, it’s then the media stirs its lazy backside and bleats until someone is forced to listen. A small contribution but helps guarantee freedom.

A child is killed. And the powers that be don’t know what to do…

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The Story so far:

Jon Venables: Jack Straw Gets Denise Fergus To Be Quiet

Jon Venables Thumb Sucks, Cop Shows And No News

David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables

Jon Venables: The Rapist, The Porn And The Parents

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Life’s Been Hell For Jon Venables, James Bulger’s Killer Accused Of Possessing Child Porn
John Venables ‘Sex Crime’ As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Worked As A Bouncer
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified
Jon Venables’ Girlfriend, A ‘Stabbing’ And A Politically Incorrect Jack Straw
James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables
James Bulger’s Killer Jon Venables: Pictures And Sickening Detail
Jon Venables Saved By The Nanny State
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David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables

Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment


‘Gay’ Jon Venables Linked To Baby P’s Killers On Facebook

JON Venables and James Bulger: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jon Venables in the news: The gay, Peter Achapman, Facebook killers, David Calvert and what is justice?

Jon Venables is only on one front page:

Daily Star (front page): “Venables outed on Facebook”

He’s gay? Robert Thompson is gay and lives with a man. Well, so say reports.

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Can Jon Venables now be linked to Peter Chapman, the man who met Ashleigh Hall on Facebook and went on to rape and kill her?

Daily Mail (front page): “Facebook under Fire”

But surely Facebook has led to the recapture of Jon Venables? Back in the Star, then, where we learn:

A MAN has spoken of his terror after he was falsely accused of being James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables. Innocent dad David Calvert has been the victim of a sick web scam.

So, Jon Venables was not outed on Facebook. The Daily Star’s front-page headline is wrong, undone by the opening lines to its own story. Says David Calvert, who moved to Fleetwood, Lancs, in 2003, having done jail time for fraud:

“People have been turning up at my neighbours’ houses with pictures of the killers printed off the internet and saying one of them is me. Now I hear that threats are being made and I’m worried that someone will come for me or my girlfriend, or hurt my kids.

“I’m too scared to go out of the house now. I have these people saying they will get me out ‘no matter what’ and I’m terrified at what they might do.”

Maybe these idiots should read Anorak because – and this might come as a shock – we know where Jon Venables is. He’s in jail.

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Posted: 10th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)


Life’s Been Hell For Jon Venables, James Bulger’s Killer Accused Of Possessing Child Porn

THE talk is of Jon Venables, the recalled on licence joint killer of James Bulger,, being jailed for chidl porn: As the Sunday Mirror tells readers:

“Jon Venables sent back to prison over child porn offence”

But there is more. Jon Venables…

Has:

– suffered so much living a lie under his false identity he regularly told others who he was while seeming to be blitzed on alcohol and drugs says the Observer:

He…“had descended into a ‘persistent state of self-disclosure’ in which he felt compelled to tell others his real identity in the months before his return to prison…”

But:

– a stronger view from the Sunday Express was the headline: ‘

“CONFESSION OBSESSION OF JAMES BULGER’S MURDERER”

In the Express version:

“Experts fear Venables has a death wish and are uncertain about how to treat him or whether to give him another new identity because he has struggled so severely to come to terms with his new life.

“The pressure of having to pass himself off as a different person with a different background and family history has triggered a serious psychological collapse which has led to him becoming violent.

“A senior source close to the case said: “He has gone into self-destruct mode. We are talking about an individual who is mentally scarred and has had to live a lie for nine years.”

While:

– Venables WILL be charged with a serious sex crime soon, the News of the World can reveal. It also says Venables has now under sedation in an isolation wing.

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And:

– over at the Mail on Sunday Suzanne Moore gives us the benefit of her youngest child’s wisdom and plucks the reader heartstrings under the headline:’Jon Venables is serving life’

“I was attempting to explain the murder of James Bulger by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to my youngest child as she had seen the news. ‘That’s terrible,’ she said. ‘Those boys should be in prison for ever.’

“When I told her they were only ten, a year older than her, when they committed this crime, she responded: ‘But it’s wrong to put children in prison.’

“Her nine-year-old view of the world is contradictory, but no more contradictory than that of many adults. We struggle between reason and emotion.”

Well yes Suzanne we do. Venable’s plight and Robert Thompson’s action in yesterday asking for 24-hour police protection and the unfortunate killing of James Bulger did make me ponder the world, life, and everything.

At this distance and a lifetime away from it, it is a struggle to pierce the memory haze to see the ten-year-old. Certainly there is no recollection of a need to kill or father a baby.

There was a cruel, harsh and difficult childhood and there was a severe trauma induced by my parents.

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It is almost too distressing to repeat but life was truly difficult and the children of the streets were all, right down to a snotty nosed four-year-old, forced to walk the snow-covered pathways in gangs. At an ungodly hour each grey day they trudged to a grinding, unremitting place of work filled with many tough taskmasters. It was a charnel house. you could sense the bones of the ones who had gone before, a terrible stone building…school.

Broke free

One Saturday I broke free and with a older set of troubled youth went to Woolworths. It was the exciting time; the initiation into the gang. I performed my tasks well and nicked a shiny penknife and a pack of playing cards. I was relieved of both as soon as we hit the damp pavements on the way out.

The trauma was almost immediate and later the same day. I had been spotted, not by a eagle-eyed assistant but the rat-fink older GIRL who lived with her family two doors away. She snitched to her mother who gleefully told mine.

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Then came the long forced march through the bitterly cold winter, a whole three miles to Woolies as my relentlessly vicious old dad forced me to apologise to the manager, staff and customers of a bemused and hugely entertained Saturday shopping throng.

The experience still causes blushing. Drugs were half an aspirin and a real-out-of-mind trip was the first PG Wodehouse and the excursion daydream- trip to Blandings Castle.

It was an unlucky childhood but, curiously, I have no difficulty in telling people who I am or right from wrong.

Venables has been and is in a Hell not entirely of his own making but he made a single-handed huge contribution to his version of Purgatory.

– AGW

The Story so far:

John Venables ‘Sex Crime’ As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus

James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Worked As A Bouncer

James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified

Jon Venables’ Girlfriend, A ‘Stabbing’ And A Politically Incorrect Jack Straw

James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables

James Bulger’s Killer Jon Venables: Pictures And Sickening Detail


Posted: 7th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)


John Venables ‘Sex Crime’ As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus

IN a totally unprecedented move Justice Secretary Jack Straw is to meet James Bulger’s mother Denise Fergus, following the recall to custody of one of the toddler’s killers, Jon Venables, the Ministry of Justice said early this morning, writes AGW.

The UK’s highest legal Cabinet member is being forced into a meeting most would dearly love to avoid. He has to try and explain to a still grieving mum why her child’s killer deserves to stay anonymous and hidden within a protection programme. That State-funded protection is to stay in place after the murderer has been accused of breaching his life licence conditions.

James Bulger Case in pictures

STRAW, who represents the the Lancashire town of Blackburn, has agreed to meet Denise Fergus following the arrest last week of one of the toddler’s killers, Jon Venables, it was revealed early today.

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Posted: 6th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (9)


James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified

JAMES Bulger and Jon Venables: THE twists and turns of the Strange Case of Jon Venables – or whoever he is now – got a little darker and dirtier yesterday when the Prime Minister backed the system which is keeping the joint murderer of a two-year-old hidden from the public, writes AGW.

James Bulger Case in pictures

Venables is said to be terrified and sticking to his cell in the prison we can’t name for fear of identifying him. He was booked in under his false identity and prison officers were not told who they were dealing with. According to the tabloids today, prisoners already know who he is and the beard Venables has been growing did not hide him..

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Posted: 5th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (21)


Jon Venables’ Girlfriend, A ‘Stabbing’ And A Politically Incorrect Jack Straw

WHATEVER name James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables calls himself, it will not be the name Privy Councillor Jack Straw remembers him by from now on. A lot stronger noun will spring to Jack’s lips, writes AGW.

Justice Secretary Straw has refused to reveal why Jon Venables, who was convicted at the age of 10 of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, has been sent back to prison for unspecified breaches of the conditions of his release on a life licence, says The Guardian.

James Bulger Case in pictures

The Times, very correctly, points out this is the first time Venables has been in jail. Up to to his 2001 parole he spent eight years being rehabilitated in secure children’s’ homes.

Straw says it is not in the public interest that details of the reason Venables has been jailed for the first time should be released.

His closest political colleague Alan Johnson the Home Secretary seemed to show a testy and disagreeable attitude and and conceded the public has a right to know. Then backed off a little by saying:

“I can say nothing more than confirm that Jon Venables is back in custody. I believe the public do have a right to know and I believe they will know all the facts in due course. But I must in no way prejudice the future criminal justice proceedings.”

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Posted: 4th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (14)


James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables

ONE of the killers of toddler James Bulger was back in prison last night after breaching the conditions of his release, says The Sun under the screaming banner headline, “Bulger Killer Back in Prison”, writes AGW.

Jon Venables, now 27, was out under licence and protected by a world-wide injunction preventing media from identifying him or him contacting his best pal joint-child murderer Robert Thompson or the Bulger family.

Thompson still out and living under licence somewhere, and Venables were hidden when released in 2001. The protections were in place for life.

James Bulger Case in pictures

They killed two-year-old James on Merseyside in 1993 and at the time were the youngest children to be convicted of murder in British history

Denise Fergus. James mum said on on her Twitter site: “Would like to let everyone know jon venables is where he belongs tonight behind bars this is my sons justice.”

Whatever else, if Venables has been slammed back in the chokey for breaching his release licence it was for something very serious and not pinching a bag of midget gems from a corner shop somewhere. This has to have been for a gross breach because the powers-that-be could not have allowed a climb down and failure on this scale for trivia.

Embarrassing

It indicated two things…either he was living in Britain all along and not the rumoured Canada or the offence is so bad the reluctant host country has shoved him in a plane for the Brits to sort out.

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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (666)


James Bulger’s Killer Jon Venables: Pictures And Sickening Detail

JAMES Bulger’s killer Jon Venables is back behind bars after breaching the terms of his bail conditions.

We are not told what Venables did. The Ministry of Justice has not told Jamie Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, the reasons for the recall.

Anorak reader Bat E Bird broke the story on the site and offered:

“Please don’t let this be an excuse to remind us in great detail of the shocking things that happened.”

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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)