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James Bulger killer Jon Venables recalled to prison | |
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One of the killers of toddler James Bulger has been recalled to prison suspected of having child abuse images on his computer. | One of the killers of toddler James Bulger has been recalled to prison suspected of having child abuse images on his computer. |
It is the second time Jon Venables has been sent back to jail under similar circumstances. | It is the second time Jon Venables has been sent back to jail under similar circumstances. |
He was released in 2001 on licence, after serving eight years for the murder of two-year-old James in 1993. | |
The 35-year-old, who had been living under a new identity, was recalled to prison last week, it was confirmed. | |
The Ministry of Justice said it could not comment on individual cases. | |
After hearing about Venables' recall, James's mother Denise Fergus tweeted: "Here we go again." | |
In a Facebook post, she wrote: "I'm absolutely fuming that once again I'm last to know, that this has happened a week ago and I only got informed just hours before it's hit the press. #JusticeForJames". | |
Venables and Robert Thompson, both then aged 10, murdered James in Bootle, Merseyside, in February 1993. | |
The pair had lured the toddler out of a shopping centre before taking him to a railway line, where they beat him to death with bricks and iron bars. | |
In 2010, Venables was recalled to prison for the first time after accessing images of child abuse, before he was released in 2013. | |
Venables was given a new identity on his release from a secure children's home in 2001 and was rearrested in 2010 when it emerged he had breached his parole conditions by visiting Merseyside. | |
He had developed drug and drink problems, started behaving anti-socially and revealed his real identity to friends. |