Inquiry as photos of ‘Bulger killer’ posted online

Britain’s attorney general has launched an investigation after photographs purporting to show killer Jon Venables were allegedly posted on the internet.

Fri, 15 Feb, 2013 - 00:00
Mike Horn

Venables was 10 when he and classmate Robert Thompson abducted and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool in Feb 1993.

Thompson and Venables were jailed for life but released on licence with new identities in 2001.

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