Jon Venables Two Years For Child Rape Pictures And ‘Dawn’ Fantasy
JON Venables, one of James Bulger’s two killer, has been sentenced to two years jail for possessing child porn. He is banned from using the internet for five years. (Call the cyber police!) His names(s) will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.
We heard that in online chats, Venables said he was a 35-year-old married woman called Dawn who had abused her eight-year-old daughter. Dawn was offering to sell access to her child.
Prosecuting, Mr Louis Mably, said some images found in Venables’ possession showed the rape of young girls. Adding:
“He stated he got sexually aroused looking at indecent images of children, it was ‘breaking the last taboo’.”
Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing Venables, said his client’s life was an “abnormal existence”, changed by Bulger’s murder.
At the Old Bailey, Venables says, via video link, he is “genuinely ashamed” to have distributed and downloaded indecent pictures of children. Only the judge can see his face at a packed Court 14. The media asks to see him so that justice can be seen to be done. The judge says no. Says Jon Venables:
“I am responsible for downloading, viewing and deleting indecent images of children on my computer, of which I have been aware through my solicitor.
“The images were for my own use. I viewed the images alone. I have never shown the images to anyone else,” he said. “I accept that using peer-to-peer can involve automatic distribution.
“I am willing to answer questions related to indecent images of children on my computer.”
As is this way of this case, Denise Fergus, Bulger’s mother, offers her views. She says “justice had not been done”. Her spokesman says the jail term “was simply not enough to meet the gravity of what this person did”.
Mr Justice Bean says Venables had “colluded in the harm of children”.
Denis Fergus sat and listened. The media required his face be seen. The judge said no. All they heard was the voice.
NOTE: Do not send us Venables’ identity. We will not publish it. Ending up in jail for him is not worth it.
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Denise Fergus, 33, centre, the mother of the murdered little boy James Bulger leading a march of more than 300 people in protest at the expected release of his killers. She led the procession through the streets of her home town in Kirkby, Merseyside * ... to highlight her Justice for James campaign. The campaign was set up last December after the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, said the youngster's killers' tariff should be over. Marchers were walking two miles to St Mark's Church in Northwood, where a memorial service was being said for James to mark the eighth anniversary of his march from Kirkby Town centre .
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