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| | James Bulger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | 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. | | | Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Venables
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| | Cork Online Law Review - 2004 |
| | The procedure adopted in the adult court and the sentence that was imposed on the children is questioned. | | | The main aspects of the judicial system that are in need of immediate change are, the age of criminal responsibility [18] and the trying of children who have committed serious crimes, in adult courts. | | | The applicants complained that, because of their age, their trial in a Crown Court and subsequent sentence, were in breach of both inhumane and degrading treatment and denied them the right to a fair trial as required under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. |
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http://colr.ucc.ie/2002x.htm
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| | European Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in the Jamie Bulger case |
| | Thompson and Venables' case will be heard later this year before a human rights court panel, before passing before a seven-judge chamber or the Court's Grand Chamber. | | | The trial of Thompson and Venables testifies to the truth of this statement. | | | In court, details of Thompson's and Venables' backgrounds, which could have provided a valuable insight into their actions, were not admitted. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/mar1999/bulg-m24.shtml
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| | BBC News UK The Bulger killers' legal challenge explained |
| | Lawyers for Thompson and Venables argued that fixing a tariff should be seen as part of the court process. | | | They think the Strasbourg court will get round the issue by saying that lawyers for the two boys should have complained at the time: they could have asked for the public to be excluded from the courtroom. | | | It said "the fixing of the punitive element must be regarded as part of the sentencing procedure". |
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http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/565101.stm
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| | CNN.com - Bulger case: Timeline of events - June 23, 2001 |
| | 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. | | | Lord Woolf had been given the task of reviewing the killers' minimum sentence after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1999 that fixing of sentences for juvenile killers by the Home Secretary was a breach of the European Human Rights Convention and was something that only a court could decide. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/21/bulger.timeline
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| | BBC News UK Bulger killers win freedom |
| | Jon Venables' case was the first to be heard, taking place at a secret location. | | | Anger outside the court as Venables and Thompson are driven away | | | The Manchester Evening News is in talks with the Attorney General after it published information on the whereabouts of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. |
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http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1394000/1394595.stm
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| | For Justice in Britain regarding the parole of Thompson and Venables, and Community Protection Law Petition |
| | The For Justice in Britain regarding the parole of Thompson and Venables, and Community Protection Law Petition to Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales was created by and written by C. | | | At the very least we firmly support, implore and even demand the creation of a community protection law in the United Kingdom, as per Sarah's Law, that never again may the Bulger case repeat itself, and never may families be ignorant of dangers to their existence posed by violent offenders released from prison. | | | For Justice in Britain regarding the parole of Thompson and Venables, and Community Protection Law Petition |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/jmssarah/petition.html
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| | The Bulger case in The AnswerBank: News |
| | The High Court made the decision to protect the new identities of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in order to protect their lives and physical well being. | | | Media lawyer Mark Stephens told BBC News 24 that the High Court injunction, designed to protect the anonymity of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, does not affect countries other than England and Wales. | | | The case may now end up in the Court of Appeal if newspapers decide to pursue the case. |
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http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article202.html
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| | Covering the Youth Beat - Opinion/Editorial |
| | No doubt, their attorneys will argue that if the court supplied new lives for Thompson and Venables, it should do the same for all other murderers released from prison or juvenile detention. | | | By not notifying English citizens of Venables' and Thompson's identity, the court protects the two teens. | | | By concealing the identities of Venables and Thompson, the English court has deprived its countrymen of seemingly important information the whereabouts of two killers. |
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http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/children/2001/oped/hunt.asp
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| | The Big Issue in the North - Jamie Bulger case |
| | When the Lord Chief Justice Taylor imposed the original 10 year tariff, Jon expressed to me his appreciation that it was an appropriate [length of] time,” Lee says. | | | This means that, pending parole procedures, they could be released as early as next year. | | | Lee says of the sentence: “I was expecting it to be 10 years because of what Chief Justice Taylor had originally ruled, but as it happened Lord Woolf has gone along with the verdict of the trial judge who is a very senior judge and was in court everyday. |
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http://www.bigissueinthenorth.com/Magazine/bulger.html
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| | CNN.com - Bulger father calls for 'restraint' - June 25, 2001 |
| | A High Court injunction has been set up to protect the identities and whereabout of Venable and Thompson from being published once they are released. | | | A statement from the Home Office said: "The Attorney General is considering as a matter of urgency whether it would be appropriate to issue proceedings for contempt in light of this." | | | British lawyers are already investigating whether a newspaper has broken the injunction. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/06/24/bulger.father
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| | GTA Warehouse Forums -> Jamie Bulger |
| | Expiration - FAILED - Venables and Thompson were granted lifelong anonymity by the High Court of England in January, 2001 and released in the summer of that year. | | | The boys were released that summer on a life license, which means that, at any point in their lives, if they are determined to be a danger to public safety, they will be returned to incarceration. | | | It calls for the prevention of Venables' and Thompson's release, which is now in the past and irrevokable. |
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http://www.gtawh.com/forums_ipb/index.php?showtopic=15497
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| | CNN.com - The killers and the victims - June 22, 2001 |
| | When the verdict was read in court, Venables broke down in tears. | | | James' mother, who has also remarried, set up a Web site called "Justice for James" and has campaigned to block the killers' release and have their identities revealed once released under a police protection programme. | | | He is reported to have been overweight at one stage during custody but has lost weight to prepare for his release. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/21/bulger.profiles
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| | Late Night Live - 20/02/2001: Justice and The Role Of The Media In Britain |
| | Venables and Thompson are due for release sometime this year, having served an 8 year sentence for their crime. | | | He also talked about how the Bulger case became a watershed in youth justice procedure and practice influencing New Labour's proposals for reform and the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. | | | 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. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/s249191.htm
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| | Jamie Bulger...News Links and Articles.. - Jenny Jones - TVTalkShows.com |
| | IW236: June 28, 1997: The imprisonment of Thompson and Venables must end! | | | The imprisonment of Thompson and Venables must end! | | | The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger urges the European Court of Human Rights to reject an appeal by the teenagers who killed her son. |
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http://www.tvtalkshows.com/board/showthread.php?t=22416
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| | The Hindu : Vigilantes vow to get at child killers |
| | Technically, the two have not been released, but let out on ``licence'' which means that they would be under constant watch and can be recalled if they are seen to be a danger. | | | Venables and Thompson will exist to only a handful of police officers, probation staff, senior Whitehall officials and their lawyers'', The Times said. | | | 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. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/06/25/stories/0325000d.htm
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| | British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing toddler |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | The 1993 trial of Thompson and Venables marked a political sea change in Britain. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/nov1999/chld-n03.shtml
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| | A court order has insured that the whereabouts of the boy’s prison remains a firmly kept secret. | | | 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. | | | But now, however, it is the crime, rather than the punishment that we see. |
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http://nachdemfilm.de/no3/wea01eng.html
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| | Young Killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson |
| | June 22 2001, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were granted release on parole after being provided with false identities, concealed by law. | | | If you enjoy discussing true crime cases with others, please join our True Crimes Discussion list. | | | They spent 8 years, 4 months and 10 days in secure local care homes for the horrific murder of James. |
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http://www.karisable.com/mbulg.htm
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| | But society's shame cannot obscure the fact that the Bulger case is highly compelling, even entertaining. | | | But the Bulger case and public reaction to it helped re-focus her scrutiny and her sympathy. | | | Barker's re-imagining of the Bulger case as a middle-class phenomenon removes one of the distractions of the real-life crime: the sociological simple-mindedness of blaming poverty for the murder or at least of having poverty to blame. |
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http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/printerfriendly/2001-07-27-monsters.shtml
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | MACVICAR: James Bulgers' mother, Denise Fergus, has gone back to court again and again to try to keep Robert Thompson and John Venables in prison. | | | A lawyer for the murdered boy's father said today the family does not believe they have had justice. | | | And when they walk out of their secure accommodations, probably next week, the hope is they will disappear, known only to their probation officers. |
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http://www-cgi.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/22/lt.08.html
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| | 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. | | | While the Home Office has permitted the removal of these sentences from the hands of politicians, the Home Secretary still controls tariffs in the case of adult murderers. | | | 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. |
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http://www.cyc-net.org/today2001/today010625.html
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| | ~Jon and Robert~ |
| | From what the police interviews and court proceedings show, they themselves did not even seem to fully understand what their motives were in killing James. | | | 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 had two siblings, Mark (age 15 at the time) and Michelle (age 9), both of which ended up in a school for developmentally slow children. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/vi/babyangels/jonandrobert.html
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| | JAMIE BULGER'S MURDER-JUSTICE? THIS IS BLOODY INSANITY! |
| | Venables, who had attempted murder once before the Bulger case, was reported to have received tickets to a popular Manchester United soccer match. | | | Now, they're likely to be set free to live under assumed names issued by their government. | | | Now, at the strapping age of 18, the pair would be entitled to sell their life stories for major bucks upon release. |
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http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/jamie.htm
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| | New Statesman: Don't let revenge win the day - leniencey for juvenile murderers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson - ... |
| | The boys' treatment in prison would most likely have a corrupting effect, said the Lord Chief Justice (the author of The Woolf Report, the most reliable book on our prisons), and they would be likely to emerge as full-blown criminals in years to come. | | | The two boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, being only ten at the time of their crime, fell just within the age of criminal responsibility in England. | | | In Denmark, the age of criminal responsibility is 15; in Spain, it is 16. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4544_130/ai_76780663
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | O'BRIEN: Simon Crighton is the attorney representing Jon Venables, one of the two now 18-year-olds, soon to be 19-year-olds who were tried and convicted for the killing of James Bulger in February of 1993. | | | But I think it is important for us to accept that decisions of this type are taken in accordance with the law by expert bodies and that we should respect those decisions. | | | As we have been reporting to you, it has now been reported they will be released on parole and although Mr. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/22/bn.05.html
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| | 1993 - definition of 1993 in Encyclopedia |
| | November 20 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. | | | November 24 - In the United Kingdom, 11-year olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention") | | | November 28 - The Observer reveals a channel of communications has existed between the IRA and the British government |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/1993
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| | When Children Kill Children BBC World Service |
| | They were convicted in November 1993, and ordered to serve a minimum sentence of 15 years. | | | In delivering his verdict of eligibility for release, Lord Woolf, expressed his concerns that Venables and Thompson could risk further damaged if continually institutionalised. | | | Laurence Lee was the lawyer for Venables, in his view it will be extremely difficult for the boys to ever readjust and live a normal life. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/001109_child.shtml
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| | Jon Stone |
| | CHICAGO, IL-- The Cubs' Jon Lieber watches his throw to first base on a hit up the middle by the Reds' Deion Sanders in the inning of their game on Thursday, May 24, 2001 in Chicago. | | | CHICAGO, IL-- The Cubs' Jon Lieber was pitching a no hit ball game through the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, May 24, 2001 in Chicago, when rain delayed the game. | | | We must not free them yet; As a storm rages over the decision to free the killers of James Bulger, the only writer to have met the parents of Jon Venables argues passionately it is too soon for them to be released... |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197760.html
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| | The Death of James Bulger: Tragic Child Abduction Caught on Tape |
| | Robert acted the part and looked the part with his closely shaved head and pudgy, bully-like build. | | | Why did they decide to steal a baby? | | | But Jon and Robert, like children who would rather destroy their own possessions than give them to another, murdered the little boy. |
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/bulger/1.html
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| | Justice for James |
| | Annoy.com linked the two cases with this cover, which was misunderstood by many in the U.S. who did not know about the James Bulger case, and assumed the kids in the bath were the Yates children. | | | Two days later, on June 22nd 2001 Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were granted release on parole. | | | The other four, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary, six months, were wrapped in a sheet on the bed. |
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http://www.annoy.com/covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100025
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| | I just read that they are being released and given a new identity. | | | I don't let by 11 year old out of sight when she is out shopping with me (but thats more to do with the fact she just might have one of my credit cards on her than a belief she could come to/cause harm!). | | | The whole thing makes me very sad indeed, and rather than question whether they should be released or not, I think we should question just what sort of society we live in that leads us to the position of even having to ask this question. |
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http://www.things.org/music/al_stewart/digest_archives/v03.n1994
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| | The Kids Who Killed the Kid By June Thomas |
| | They will be given new identities and are prohibited from contacting one another or returning to their home region of Merseyside. | | | The imminent release of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who tortured and killed 2-year-old James Bulger eight years ago when they were 10 years old, dominated the British papers this weekend. | | | That relentless punishment should be enough to satisfy those thirsting for revenge," though the Independent denounced this attitude: "Too much press coverage of the release of the Bulger killers has appeared to celebrate rather than condemn the fact that they will live their lives in fear of discovery. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/110926
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| | The Hindu : U.K. sets toddler's killers free |
| | On Friday, eight years after their gruesome crime, the two were ordered to be released by a parole board, not as Robert Thompson and Jon Venables but under new identities to protect them from social ostracisation and possible reprisal. | | | Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were 10 when, for no apparent reason than sadism, they kidnapped a two-year-old child James Bulger from a shopping mall in Bootle, Liverpool, in February 1993, murdered him and placed his mutilated body on a railway track provoking nationwide fury. | | | Now 18, they have not been seen in public for years and nobody outside the rehabilitation centre where they were detained knows how they look. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/06/24/stories/0324000a.htm
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| | CBS News Britain's Lost Boys July 4, 2001 21:07:47 |
| | And unwittingly, in the course of investigating and prosecuting those two boys, it seems that British Justice has let everyone down... | | | On February 12, 1993, when they were each just ten years old, Venables and Thompson set out to kidnap and murder a child. | | | They failed at their first attempt, so they tried again, later in the day in a shopping mall... |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/04/uttm/main299828.shtml
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| | The more sites it is on the better its chances of standing the test of time. | | | - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Venables" To: Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:25 PM Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #168 > > >Andy J's reviews are brilliant, for example... | | | Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #168 Andy Venables wrote: > > Jon - thanks for the latest installment. |
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http://www.smoe.org/lists/alloy/v06.n170
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| | Young Murderers |
| | Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are infamous for their crimes against other children, but many of the studies here will be less familiar to the reader and equally as offensive. | | | Robert Thompson and Jon Venables murdered James Bulger, 2 years old | | | Murdered by fire, poison, strangulation or gunshots, victims range from infants to old age pensioners. |
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http://www.karisable.com/youngmurder.htm
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| | Liverpool - encyclopedia article about Liverpool. |
| | This had a traumatic effect on people in both cities, and resulted in legally imposed changes in the way in which football fans have since been accommodated. | | | And again over the murder of Kenneth Bigley in 2004. | | | A similar outpouring of grief and shock occurred in 1993 when two year-old James Bulger was killed by two ten year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Liverpool
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| | All about evil and its manifestations, by Katherine Ramsland |
| | In 1993, for example, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both age 10, casually took two-year-old James Bulger out of a shopping center in Liverpool, England. | | | They were just looking for something to do, so they decided to see if they could get away with a kidnapping. | | | While the uniqueness of this type of crime might have been true in 1924, it's no longer true today, and the thrill killers are getting younger and younger. |
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/evil1/3.html
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| | James's killers |
| | At first they threw bricks at him and he would fall down. | | | When Jon Venables was questioned and asked why he kept throwing bricks, he said "he wouldnt stay down". | | | They poured blue enamel paint into James's eyes and mouth to keep him quiet. |
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