Britain’s €19,000 injunction to hide child killers’ identity

THE British Government has spent £13,000 (€19,000) of taxpayers’ money preventing overseas magazines revealing the new identities of the James Bulger murderers, it was revealed yesterday.

Home Office figures showed the sum went on legal fees, VAT and other costs.

Strict guidelines restricting media coverage of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, now both aged 24, were imposed by the High Court in January 2001 to protect them from revenge attacks.