[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

No, not at all. That program on C4 the other night left a bad taste in my mouth, was like they were trying to get us to sympathise with the killers. Absolutely awful and I'm glad it's had such a backlash.

Venables should be stripped of his anonymity now and jailed for good, he's clearly a danger and something major waiting to happen (again).

Every time he's back in the press James' poor mother has to relive everything all over again and it's so cruel, she's never found nor never will find peace with it with their protection, like she says they were basically rewarded. Just lock him away and have him never mentioned again.

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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.

I still think 8 years which was the maximum they could receive in juvenile prison was too short