"You look at him and you say to yourself, 'How could you be involved in anything like this?'" [4], Up to 500 protesters gathered at the Magistrates' Court in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton during the boys' initial court appearances. He has had his holidays like everyone else. "[45] Morland sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, with a recommendation that they should be kept in custody for "very, very many years to come", recommending a minimum term of eight years. If anything, he was the one likely to bully others. April 12, 2023. He said that on the day James was killed, when he went to the school in the afternoon to collect Jon he was told his son was missing. Our feelings haven't changed towards him. He has had Christmas presents. On 20 September 2008, he was held on suspicion of affray over a street fight with a man who claimed Venables had attacked his girlfriend. Mr Venables said that the two boys had played truant together four times before, adding that he caught them twice. Venables had contacted his probation officer in February 2010, fearing that his new identity had been compromised at his place of work. They rejected suggestions that he could have watched Child's Play Three, a film that his father had rented three weeks before James's death, which, it has been claimed, included scenes similar to those of the attack on the two-year-old. Pathologist Alan Williams stated that Bulger suffered so many injuries42 in totalthat none could be identified as the fatal blow. He was fearful of the other boy. I know how I feel as a mother. He was also beaten and molested by the man. "[132], In late June 2019, it was reported that British officials had considered resettling Venables in Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, due to the high costs behind protecting his anonymity. [97] On 7 March, media reports said that he had been accused of child pornography offences. [42] After his appearances in court, Venables would strip off his clothes, saying: "I can smell James like a baby smell. The Venables were by no means wealthy, but they were more financially comfortable than the Thompsons. [39] A child psychiatrist, Eileen Vizard, who interviewed Thompson before the trial, was asked in court whether he would know the difference between right and wrong, that it was wrong to take a young child away from his mother, and that it was wrong to cause injury to a child. Venables later described how Bulger seemed to like him, holding his hand and allowing him to pick him up on the meandering journey to the scene of his murder. Jon Venables was just 10 years old when he and friend Robert Thompson murdered toddler James Bulger. [38], Thompson and Venables were considered by the court to be capable of "mischievous discretion", meaning an ability to act with criminal intent as they were mature enough to understand that they were doing something seriously wrong. That assessment concluded that Venables would face the highest possible risk of being attacked if his name was either published in the media or known elsewhere in society. "[55] The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 clarified the rules on the availability of certain types of video material to children. But can such guilt be so neatly apportioned? In January 1987, the police were called to Susan Venables' home because the children (then seven, five and three) had been left alone for three hours. So whats the ultimate answer here? In April 2011, in the aftermath of his 2010 imprisonment, these allegations were outlined in a Sunday Times Magazine article written by David James Smith, who had been following the Bulger case since the 1993 trial, and again later in a BBC documentary titled Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? Summing up, the judge, Mr Justice Morland, told them they had committed a crime of "unparalleled evil and barbarity". Wed Feb 7 2018 - 12:23. He denied having had any films that were not mainstream, or that were pornographic, in the house. [CDATA[// >
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