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	The Death of James Bulger: Tragic Child Abduction Caught on Tape
		Jon was born August 13, 1982, to parents Susan and Neil Venables.
		Jon was stuck in the middle, feeling ignored, and perhaps resentful of the attention his siblings received.
		Jon was an easy target for the other kids, and they teased him mercilessly, because he was so easily worked up by their provocations.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/young/bulger/8.html (1877 words)

	James Bulger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thompson and Venables were released on a life licence in June 2001 after serving eight years of their life sentence (reduced for good behaviour), when a parole hearing concluded that public safety would not be threatened by their rehabilitation into society.
		Jon himself was hyperactive and had attempted to throttle another boy in a fight at school.
		In 1999, lawyers acting for Venables and Thompson appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on the grounds that the boys' trial had not been impartial, since they were too young to be able to follow the proceedings and understand the workings of an adult court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Venables (2773 words)

	~Jon and Robert~
		Jon and Robert were spending the day "sagging" from school and shoplifting from Bootle Strand when they spotted James standing by himself, eating a pack of Smarties.
		Jon Venables, born August 13th, 1982 (only ten days before Robert), was raised under dramatically different conditions than his comrade was, but nonetheless just as rough in their own right.
		Jon's teachers all tell stories of his horrible temper tantrums, rocking back and forth in his desk and making strange noises to get attention, and the "bullyish" nature he tended to exercise on other children.
	www.angelfire.com /vi/babyangels/jonandrobert.html (909 words)

	James Bulger -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Both had blood on their shoes; blood on Jon Venables' shoe was matched to James' through ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information) DNA tests.
		Other media commentators blamed the behaviour of Venables and Thompson on their families, or on their social situation, living in one of the most (additional info and facts about deprived) deprived areas of the UK.
		Jon himself was (additional info and facts about hyperactive) hyperactive and had attempted to (A valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine) throttle another boy in a fight at school.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_bulger.htm (2774 words)

	World News- robert thompson- jon venables
		Denise Fergus had found out where Robert Thompson, who was convicted at the age of 11 alongside Jon Venables for the murder of two-year-old James, was living.
		More than a decade on from the court case, she recognised the child killer at once but was paralysed by fear on seeing him in the flesh.
		Thompson and Venables, both now 21, were given new identities and addresses after their release from detention in 2001.
	www.mako.org.au /worldart59.html (381 words)

	Justice For Jamie Bulger's Killers - BreakTheChain.org
		Venables and Thompson then laid the boy's body across the tracks and weighed his head down with stones in hopes that a train strike would hide the evidence of their actions.
		Venables and Thompson had access to a collection of violent films, though no testimony that the boys had been watching them was presented at their trial.
		Jon was hyperactive and was prone to violence.
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/bulger.html (1878 words)

	Baby Bulger Killed by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
		On Feb. 12, 1993, in Liverpool, England, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables murdered 2 year old James Bulger after kidnapping the toddler from a butcher's shop in a shopping center with his mother, Denise who was momentarily distracted as she conducted business.
		Venables claimed Thompson bullied him but that it was Venables idea to approach James, though it was Thompson's idea to kill Bulger.
		Venables and Thompson did not want to be released out of fear for their safety.
	www.karisable.com /mbulg.htm (1172 words)

	The Hindu : Vigilantes vow to get at child killers
		Fears over the safety of child-killers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who are to be set free with secret identities, were growing by the hour as vigilantes renewed threats to track them down, and the media scoured for clues to their whereabouts.
		One newspaper quoted an official source as saying that ``this may happen any day'' while the mother of Jon Venables told a tabloid that she believed it could be a matter of weeks before someone got to her son.
		One newspaper reported that Venables was so frightened at the prospect of leaving the security of his detention centre that he wept and begged not to be released.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/25/stories/0325000d.htm (631 words)

	nach dem film: no3
		Justice Morland, in nearby Preston, nine months, and four days later, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were found guilty of "acts of unparalleled evil and barbarity,"and were sentenced to be held for eight years in a secure unit.
		Buoyed by a child-like sense of their own invincibility, Jon Venables’ and Bobby Thompson’s act represented a fundamental challenge to the panopticon; daring to see if their actions would go unchecked, they called the bluff of an architectural system that purported to see everything, but that was perhaps suffering from a certain myopia.
		Despite, however, this being the site of Venables’ and Thompson’s principal crime – of the horrific killing of a child, it was back in the space of the mall, and the abduction of a child, rather than his murder, that seemed to hold a greater sense of horror.
	nachdemfilm.de /no3/wea01eng.html (5928 words)

	The Death of James Bulger: Tragic Child Abduction Caught on Tape
		Jon and Robert took James from the front of a butcher’s shop, but we can assume that they knew what they were doing.
		In late 1999 the European Court decided that Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were not given a fair trial in 1993, and concluded that the ten-year-old boys should not have been tried as adults.
		Jon Venables had suffered with his memories of the murder, and was tormented by ongoing nightmares of a brutalized James.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/young/bulger/9.html (1322 words)

	Thompson and Venables
		Robert Thompson and Jon Venables served their eight-year sentences inside separate local authority secure units, two of 28 such centres in the UK providing about 300 places.
		On reaching their 19th birthdays in August, Venables and Thompson would have had to move to a YOI, and one of the factors in Lord Woolfe's ruling last October that effectively ended the boys' tariff was the "corrosive atmosphere" they would find there.
		Venables and Thompson have not seen each other since they were led from the dock in Preston crown court, but both have been watched constantly by psychiatrists, attended daily classes and apparently benefited.
	www.cyc-net.org /today2001/today010625.html (803 words)

	CNN.com - The killers and the victims - June 22, 2001
		Thompson, known as Child A during his and Venables' 1993 trial, was one of seven children from what reportedly was a dysfunctional family suffering from abuse, alcohol, unemployment and an absent father.
		Venables, known as Child B during the trial, was described as a weak, if willing, follower.
		Venables has been taken to pubs, to play five-a-side football and on day trips to go abseiling and white-water rafting in preparation for his release, according to The Observer newspaper.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/21/bulger.profiles (1254 words)

	ipedia.com: James Bulger murder case Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Bulger (March 16, 1990 – February 12, 1993) was a toddler who was abducted and murdered by two ten year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, on Merseyside, in the United Kingdom.
		Thompson and Venables were released on a life licence in June 2001 after serving eight years of their ten year sentence (reduced for good behaviour), when a parole hearing concluded that public safety would not be threatened by their rehabilitation into society.
		Indeed in June 2001, Venables' mother was quoted by the News of the World as saying that she expected her son to be "dead within four weeks" of release.
	www.ipedia.com /james_bulger_murder_case.html (2487 words)

	Bulger killers win right to secret identity \| News Bulletin \| Uk \| News \| Telegraph
		NEW identities to be given to James Bulger's killers when they are freed should remain secret for the rest of their lives, the High Court ruled yesterday.
		Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who are likely to be released this year, will have their anonymity protected by "exceptional" injunctions forbidding publication of their assumed names, whereabouts, photographs and descriptions of their appearances.
		Thompson and Venables were 10 years old when they abducted James from a Liverpool shopping centre and battered him to death on a railway in February 1993.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/09/nbulg09.xml (949 words)

	CNN.com - Bulger father calls for 'restraint' - June 25, 2001
		The decision by the Parole Board to release Jon Venables and Robert Thompson on life licences has been met by fears that the pair will face the constant threat of revenge attacks by vigilantes.
		On Sunday, the News of the World tabloid newspaper quoted Venables' mother, Susan, as saying she feared her son would be killed by vigilantes within four weeks.
		Venables and Thompson -- now both aged 18 -- were 10-year-old schoolboys when they lured two-year-old James from a shopping centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, in February 1993 as he waited outside a butcher's shop for his mother.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/06/24/bulger.father (717 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| The Bulger killers' legal challenge explained
		Robert Thompson and Jon Venables claim there has been a breach of their human rights.
		Thompson and Venables said they were denied a fair trial because their case was held in an adult court.
		Lawyers for Thompson and Venables argued that fixing a tariff should be seen as part of the court process.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/565101.stm (866 words)

	The Big Issue in the North - Jamie Bulger case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		“Jon’s mother had specifically asked for someone who had experience and was able to handle a potentially volatile situation.
		Once committed to representing Venables, Lee says he still had periods of doubt.“ I was very worried about taking the case on because, within a very short period of time, the police station was a no-go area.
		Venables and Thompsons’ first appearance in court, in Liverpool, provided a glimpse of the public’s fury at Jamie Bulger’s murder.
	www.bigissueinthenorth.com /Magazine/bulger.html (1369 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Bulger killers win freedom
		Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, now aged 18, have spent eight years in secure accommodation for the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.
		Jon Venables' case was the first to be heard, taking place at a secret location.
		Jon Venables and Robert Thompson could be freed within months after the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, ruled the process of parole could begin immediately.
	newssearch.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1394000/1394595.stm (401 words)

	European Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in the Jamie Bulger case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrowed by the terrible evidence presented before them of Jamie's killing, made to listen to tapes of Thompson and Venables wailing for their mothers during police interrogation and harassed by a lynch mob media, the jury "were there simply to rubber stamp a verdict", he said.
		For the past six years, Thompson and Venables' solicitors and their families have sought to challenge both the legality of the trial and Howard's intervention.
		When Venables and Thompson came to trial, the prosecution was charged with proving that the boys knew their actions were seriously wrong.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/mar1999/bulg-m24.shtml (2024 words)

	JAMIE BULGER'S MURDER-JUSTICE? THIS IS BLOODY INSANITY!
		Eight years ago, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson seemed destined for lives as street thugs in their native England.
		In pictures that circled the globe, Venables and Thompson were seen on security videotape, luring their little victim from his mom.
		Venables, who had attempted murder once before the Bulger case, was reported to have received tickets to a popular Manchester United soccer match.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /jamie.htm (562 words)

	Legal / Professional
		Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were then 10½ years of age, having been born, in the case of Jon Venables on 13
		I have also had to take into account that the judge and the former Lord Chief Justice did not have the advantage of knowing how Jon Venables and Robert Thompson have developed while in custody, which is a matter to which I have to have regard.
		Jon Venables has no doubt benefited from the continued interest of his parents and Robert Thompson has benefited from the similar interest of his mother.
	www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk /legalprof/tariffs/tariff_t_v.htm (2889 words)

	Cork Online Law Review - 2005
		The focus of this essay is on children who kill, in particular Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who at the age of 10, were tried and convicted for the murder of toddler James Bulger.
		The trial of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson for the abduction and murder of James Bulger was one of the most sensational in British history.
		The vast public outrage clearly apparent during the trial of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables appears to have led some people to believe that the treatment of these children was justified due to the adverse public reaction to the horrific crime.
	colr.ucc.ie /2002x.html (6020 words)

	spiked-liberties \| Column \| Bulger case - neverending story
		They have detailed, at every opportunity, the brutality of James Bulger's murder, the money spent and care taken over the rehabilitation of his killers, the apparent cushiness of the secure unit in which they spent their imprisonment and the money to be spent on the extravagant scheme designed to conceal their identities when they leave.
		But since the murder trial of Thompson and Venables, she has been transformed into a media celebrity of the most ghoulish kind, never allowed to stay out of the spotlight long enough to enjoy a new life with her three other children.
		Thompson and Venables, as many have pointed out, will never be truly free - they are under license, allowing for their recall to jail on the basis of any misdemeanour; the therapy started in jail will go on for life; their false identities will mean they can never even be themselves.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D14A.htm (1196 words)

	British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing toddler
		Ramsbotham expressed concern over the continued imprisonment of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two boys jailed in 1993 for the killing of two-year old James Bulger in Liverpool.
		Thompson and Venables were just 10 years old at the time of the killing, yet they were committed for trial as adults, found guilty of premeditated murder and ordered to be detained "at her Majesty's pleasure", an open-ended sentence.
		Although the European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that Thompson and Venables were denied a fair trial, and that their sentencing was subject to political interference, Straw has so far refused to change the 15-year minimum term imposed by Howard.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/chld-n03.shtml (1195 words)

	CNN.com - Bulger case: Timeline of events - June 23, 2001
		March 1999: The European Commission of Human Rights rules that Thompson and Venables were unfairly treated because their trial was "severely intimidatory" and held in a "highly charged" atmosphere.
		The European court did not void Thompson and Venables' sentences but put pressure on Britain to amend legal practices, such as the right of a government minister to set prison terms for minors or send juveniles accused of serious offences to trial in an adult court.
		January 2001: High Court Judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss grants Thompson and Venables an open-ended injunction ordering that when they are freed their new identities must not be disclosed by the news media.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/21/bulger.timeline (815 words)

	Late Night Live - 20/02/2001: Justice and The Role Of The Media In Britain
		Last week, the father of James Bulger who was murdered by 10 year olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson on 12 Feburary, 1993, lost his appeal to have the decision to let Thompson and Venables out on parole overturned.
		Venables and Thompson are due for release sometime this year, having served an 8 year sentence for their crime.
		He spoke about the appalling treatment that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson received before and during their trial and the importance of Justice Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss's anonymity ruling earlier this year.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lnl/s249191.htm (286 words)

	Special report: the James Bulger case \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		October 19: The lifetime ban protecting the new identities and whereabouts of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the killers of James Bulger, might need to be altered further to make it clear to the media what they can and cannot publish, the judge who granted the injunction said yesterday.
		June 23: Robert Thompson was known as Child A throughout the three-week murder trial at Preston crown court, and many of those close to the case believe him to have been the prime mover in the killing of James Bulger.
		June 23: Jon Venables wept every day of his three-week murder trial, a quivering, vulnerable contrast to the boy he sat beside.
	www.guardian.co.uk /bulger (718 words)

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