Tweeters may face jail for Bulger killer photographs

Contempt proceedings and possible jail terms are to be brought against people who posted photos purporting to show James Bulger killers Jon Venables or Robert Thompson online, Britain’s attorney general said.

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

Images recently appeared on social network site Twitter claiming to show an adult Venables, who was released from jail on licence with a new identity in 2001.