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[82], In April 2010, a 19-year-old man from the Isle of Man was given a three-month suspended prison sentence for falsely claiming in a Facebook message that one of his former colleagues was Thompson. A Merseyside detective said, "We went through something like 200 titles rented by the Venables family. Jon Venables In that September he was arrested for affray after a fight outside a night club - charges which were dropped after he claimed he was acting in self A term first coined in the 1980s when a swathe of violent horror films made their way into peoples homes via the exciting new medium of VHS, video nasties made for a convenient scapegoat. If they breached the rules or were deemed a risk to the public, they could be returned to prison. WebA few days after the body of little Jamie Bulger had been found, Venables and Thompson were taken into custody. Blunkett added his own conditions to their licence and insisted on being sent daily updates on the boys' actions. . Venables had contacted his probation officer in February 2010, fearing that his new identity had been compromised at his place of work. "[36], In September 1999, Bulger's parents appealed to the European Court of Human Rights but failed to persuade the court that a victim of a crime has the right to be involved in determining the sentence of the perpetrator. With Walton Lane Police Station across the road, they hesitated, then led Bulger up a steep bank to a railway line near the former Walton & Anfield railway station, close to Walton Park Cemetery. The Venables were by no means wealthy, but they were so they were put in a lower year. The first involved downloading 57 indecent pictures of children on to his computer between February 2009 and February 2010. [71] Ralph also remarried, and has three daughters by his second wife. 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. [120] A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice commented: "Such a change of identity is extremely rare, and granted only when the police assess that there is clear and credible evidence of a sustained threat to the offender's life on release into the community. He didn't want to hurt James. The film is based on transcripts of the police interviews with Thompson and Venables after their arrests. 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. ", Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. [139], In June 2007, a computer game based on the television series Law & Order, titled Law & Order: Double or Nothing (made in 2003), was withdrawn from stores in the UK following reports that it contained an image of Bulger. When the officer arrived at his flat, Venables was attempting to remove or destroy the hard drive of his computer with a knife and a tin opener. In the picture, it is Venables who is holding James's hand. [CDATA[// >