[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Honestly I think it's very complex and it may well be the case that those two boys were always irredemably violent and dangerous, but I still have to disagree that they should have been tried or sentenced as adults at 10 years old. Not because of the specifics of that case - but because the idea that we should EVER start convicting children of crimes as if they were adults is a really horrendous road to go down.

That said, as an adult Venables at least has at this point surely proven beyond a doubt that he is, for whatever reason, a permanently dangerous individual and its ridiculous that he is repeatedly in and out with these light sentences. It should have been a condition of their initial release that ANY violent / sexual or similar criminal activity after release would result in immediately returning to prison to serve a full adult life term for the original murder.

Yes,this for me too.as to the last paragraph.
Always a conditional release.

This was discussed on question time last night too.
With some feeling Venables should be told on his next release,any further issues and his anonymity will be removed.

It's a truly horrible heartbreaking tragedy this.

The tapes were mentioned above,I was sickened on those tapes when one of them stated while pelting him with stones,that he wouldn't stay down and kept getting up.

They knew what they were doing for sure, despicable.