Anonymity made Jon Venables ‘a danger’

Protecting the identity of child murderer Jon Venables has made him secretive and dangerous, a court heard. Toddler James Bulger was snatched from his mother and tortured to death by Venables and his friend Robert Thompson. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two-and-a-half miles away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his murder. The father and paternal uncle of the dead two-year-old have launched a legal bid to lift an injunction barring publication of details about the…

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