Mountjoy governor says child killer ‘not evil’

MOUNTJOY governor John Lonergan has said he does not believe Jon Venables is evil and was critical of the British system that tried him as an adult for a crime he committed as a child.

Now 27, Venables was just 10 when he and Robert Thompson carried out the brutal killing of James Bulger in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.

He was re-arrested last week and is being investigated by police over reported allegations he was looking at child pornography.