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  • lol secretly is it ?? lol the whole world wants to put a gun up americas ass and thats no secret ,in usa alone this kinda shit happens every day lol fuck off stupid american idiots

  • @jewishmansjew not all americans are mindless killers

  • British People are like fucking clones they beleive any bullshit their gov tells them. Fucking dumb Fuckers. They are most materialistic peices of shit on the planet and should all be burned at the stake. Americans hate british secretly and want to bend their armed forces over and fuck them up their asses. OMG can you beleive he said that?. I cant ! Who are you talking to Oh my conciens WTF OMG he has lost the plot I must be brit ISH.

  • @neephius fuck off you silly cunt ,the whole world know usa is the most material people on the planet,you live for mcdonalds,you have mroe rape than any other country and more murder than libya ,go fuck yourslef you silly american clit

  • psychopaths need life without parole -no reasons necessary

  • just goes to show how bad murderers are at drawing :/

  • Man it was wrong for them to kill the kid but there is nothing that pisses me off more than parents that leave their kids unattended

  • Inclined to not believe this to be a true image of what it claims to be. The British media is notorious for making up bullshit just to sell stories.

    From when the boys were put in rehab, the news (incl. the Daily Mail, from which this apparent picture was released) was reporting of violent acts such as dismemberment & sexual assault of Bulger. When investigators looked into it, found no evidence of such actions.

    The irony is in the greater violence of the British public.

  • it seems the people harming society like kids killing kids or mothers killing there kids are ignored and never stopped with all the warning sides and evidence there diabolical.

    Yet we get the cops on us fast on shit.

    You have your lawn left long. your in trouble.

    Are mental heath would consider them fine yet we have an argument, a dirty shirt, untidy house and somehow we have bi-polar and schizophrenia and need treatment.

    This is pathetic.

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  • There is no sense arguing with the ten year old. He is a sociopath and will always be right and everything wrong he does will be justified in his own mind.

  • @CaptainSnigs You really are 10 aren't you? Tell you what kid. One of two things are happening here. Either - 1) You really believe what you're saying, in which case you will end up in prison. You aren't right in the head and will definitely come to a sticky end. Or 2) You don't really believe what you're saying and just like to mess with people online and do your best to shock them. If this is the case then you're an idiot, and will piss off the wrong person and could be killed. Pathetic!

  • @CaptainSnigs A bitch is what you are...

  • @CaptainSnigs. wow. can see you like the shock factor, but its really not cool to come out with shit like this. Its not big and its not clever as they say. If you truly believe what you're saying then I can only take solace in the fact that you'll get whats coming to you. Either killed yourself or ending up in prison for the rest of your pathetic life. Get a grip of yourself... grow the fuck up.

  • That actually is normal drawings. There is a thin line between psychotic, and sane.

  • I don't think I would be okay with my kid drawing people murdering others ..

  • Both of these sick twisted people need to be HUNTED DOWN AND SHOT DEAD ! harsh but TRUE

  • I remember the case as I was a child of a similar age to Thompson and Venebles. Was a god awful end to poor Jame's short life. Was so scary because it was carried out by CHILDREN. I don't care what anyone says, there is no rehabilitating these 2 monsters

  • This is just an average drawing by your average 10yr old boy who watches too much tv. It wasn't entered into evidence because it means nothing.

  • What's worse than a psychopathic killer on the loose? A CHILD psychopathic killer on the loose. Well, he's not a child anymore. Now he's graduated from that to fucking freak.

  • john venable is dead

  • What u have got to remember these boys were 10 years old, they must have been mentally disturbed in some way or just born evil? these boys where from bad homes with bad parents an each person reacts differently to different abuse. Did these boys think it was somewhat normal to kill a child u dont know. You dont know what they where thinking. I AM NOT sticking up for or condoning what they did because words cant describe how evil it was but they where only children themselves.

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  • When I was 12 my Mom would always censor the sex in movies I saw. But when It came to violence she never censored that.

  • @averagejoe511 how did she censor the sex? did she jump in front of the tv and start capering?

  • @BongoOldChap lol yes maybe she was trying to compete for my attention.

  • evil looking bastard. his eyes are so black and deep set and evil. the shit eating grin on his evil face. u can tell this is a lil bastard that needs strung up and killed. the kind we have all seen that are so rotten we want to dump the lousy shits in a deep river. this one kills and mutilated babies tho.

  • @CaptainSnigs lol unreal man,,,,, un real

  • I appollogise if I am about to offend but I'm sure you agree with me these should be hung

  • @mikescabaret i totally agree that the two should be hung. there are psycho's that are so evil they should never be allowed to live . these two are prime examples of psychopathy and evil .

  • I am liverpudlian and  know and abhor what they did but abuse does alter the brains of children in such a way they have no idea of socialising with people. Have not heaqrd of a 11 year old girl who killed two little boys. she was brought up in an hosehold where rhe mother was a protitute who deal sado-masichism and other vile practices . That does not effect a person grow up !!! All these children deal with the world in inappropriate manner like killing

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  • I'm an American, born 1969. When I was growing up most boys played rough games like cowboys and indians and cops and roobers. we watched scary movies. lots of kids drew scary pics like this one. we played with toy guns, knives, etc. and the majority of us turned out fine.

    don't mis-state me, what those kids did was horrible. there was no excuse. but maybe if they had been raised better then this wouldn't have happened.

  • @kw266988 I am from Liverpool and it is well known that Robert Thompson [The other ten year old killer] was from a neglectful and abusive family, Jon Venables parents divorced. He was brought up well but apparently had to deal with his mothers depression.

  • and Villasika how can you say their not monsters?! So subjecting a todler to all that pain...tying him to the railway lines, throwing paint and rocks at him, dimembering his privates and beating him FOR HOURS doesn't make them monsters?? It's time to ask yourself this "If as children they were capable of doing that to another child...what as adults are the capable of??" And now their out there roaming free whats to say they wont do it again...AND IT COULD OF BEEN PREVENTED!!!

  • @platsychick No, that does not make them monsters. They were definitely mentally ill, and that's probably because of their abusive families. They weren't evil, their world view was very distorted. They've been treated for their illnesses now, so it's very unlikely they'll do anything like this again. People can change, and it's very wrong to judge anyone by something they've done almost 20 years ago.

  • Whats to say they are no longer a risk to others?! We as the British tax payers have paid millions to protect these bastards...people have a right to know who and where they are! What right do they have to be protected! None.

  • Jon and Robert are NOT evil people. It's wrong to take someone else's life, but that doesn't make them "evil monsters". They are obviously sick. They come from broken families and have been abused. I understand that people are upset about this case but hating on Jon and Robert will not bring James Bulger back.

  • @Villasika exactly

  • @Villasika they are evil

  • i think the drawing is showing the bastard stabbing the bitch that hatched him and the sperm donor. its to bad that he didn't kill the ones that deserved to die but instead took out his hatred jealousy perversion misdirected torture and murder on a poor innocent baby.

  • Jon Venables & Robert Thompson don't deserve to die... they deserve a life of being subjected to the most vile non-fatal acts that the general public can think of. It's too easy and selfish to kill them both, it's selfish in the sense that one person will get the satisfaction while the millions of others waiting for their moment of fun will miss out. I'd say put them both on a world tour and let the world have its way with them. Kick it off with a 6v battery rammed up their rectums and then..

  • HOW dose this relate to Halloween one of the best movies

  • @MrYoshiFilms I was just thinking that I was thinking.. "I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the Devil's eyes"

  • my respects to the victims. but drawings lik this are done by kids all over the world and all the time. a violent drawing is not always a predictor fo violent behaveor. 

  • @FTMNinja666xxx They are just spouting off man. Ignore it.

    Medieval mob mentality! lol

  • These two children were also victims themselves.

    They were ten years old.

    It is well known that their upbringing was in family homes filled with violence and anger and they were routinely exposed to horrific scenes from horror and slasher movies, and that is only one small part of it.

  • out of the hundreds of murderers being released back into society everyday why is there soo much hatred for jon venables? kids who stab people to death never get the same publicity or hatred, its so messed up. Adults murder basically every day but when its a kid everyone has to swear to kill them etc...whats wrong with people??

  • @mitone14 sad cunts in it

  • Way i see it is, if these damn kids can commit adult crimes, let them serve an adult sentence in an adult jail..including being killed in an electric chair, firing squad or w/e the mode of execution is in their state.imagine what they would think once they've been booked, given supplies, the adult inmates hooting and hollering at them as they are led to their cells.

  • These 2 damn evil kids should have been tossed in an adult prison..what all that would have happened to them would have been very well deserved.

  • he looks like the antichrist kid from Omen

  • damn think about it. serial killers start by killing animals before their darkest fantasies are formed. what do you guys think these youngsters are thinking up now?

  • venables was an evil lil bastard. you can see that in his face and black dead eyes. i hope the SOB burns in hell for what he did to that baby. i do believe some people are born psycho's and born evil. he should never have a moments peace in his life..burn in hell venables and thompson.

  • Someone should send this to Maddox.

  • That drawing creeped me out,

  • The drawing looks like a female killing a dog and child at some railroad tracks...It looks like he witnessed a murder.

  • Wat des he currently look like?

  • @SpriggsIsThaKid yeah what does he look like?..so we can see if he gets hunted down and delt with like he should. he should never have gotten out of prison. someone that can do what he did is evil and deranged and will always be a danger.

  • Wtf??. All those commenting saying that poor Jon venebles must have been abused and therefore it's ok that he killed a child need to get a reality check. how dare you. children are abused all the time but they don't go out amd snatch a child and torture him to death. Jon and Robert were evil little bastards end of. They premeditated the murder of poor James. They are monsters and should never have been released.

  • @awamylowe12 I suggest that you re-read what you have written here,"children are abused all the time but they don;t go out and snatch a kid"etc.Does this sound normal to you?if we lived in a world that was half decent world then children would never have to suffer abuse.Most children who experience forms of abuse grow up to be troubled adults,around 75% of patients recieving psychiatric care report some type of abuse in their own lives.Sometimes they are affected by seeing domestic violence.

  • wonders if this boy was abused by a parent or totally ignored n had mental disorders?

  • 10 yo boy draws graphic picture - killing & violence - that tells me he is very badly abused - brutalised. 10 yo's don't have no emotional capacity to process brutality (kids don't develop a true concept of time until they're about 13, yet you expect them to cope with being fucked over by adults?) - they "act out". So, badly brutalised kid then beats a child to death. What do you say to this abused kid? DIE or will will hunt you forever! And you love kids do you? You should all feel deep shame.

  • he looks like an alien

  • I found that prick's current photo on the net. If I lived in the UK, I'd hunt and kill him.

  • @DougFCKNSteele He does live in the UK doesn't he? When him and Robert were released the Government spent millions on their name changes (which is completely unacceptable as it's the tax payers that are funding it. They should be named and shamed, left to defend for the themselves when the majority of the sane public find them). Anyway, he got put back into prision for being caught with child pornography in his house and on his computer. Think it was some time last year.

  • @Kimmzyyy Hang him in the streets with that other assholes. I would have killed them both in court when it happened. Russian style.

  • @Kimmzyyy how much time did he get?

  • @DougFCKNSteele lol would that make you any better... you would just end up hating yourself

  • @axsmith234 Nah, if I was single and had no family, I'd clean up the streets a bit. Until I was caught. I'm pretty empathetic and sympathetic, but these two murderers need to be put down. Like John Douglas said, it's kind of comparable to making a cake with motor oil in the ingredients. Once the cake is made, you can't take out the oil. The cake is ruined. So is the make up of a psychopath. So let's do the right thing and bury these two.

  • @axsmith234 if i killed a cold blooded murderer i'd sleep quite well at night, not hating myself at all.1 less criminal for society to worry about.. i live in colorado, we can open carry and conceal carry and can defend someone in an illegal, frightening situation, we CAN blow then to hell

  • @DougFCKNSteele do you have the pic? i wanna see it, even tho i live in the us, it' s still scary that there are flat out demonic evil kids in the world.

  • @thecolaratlady Google it..Someone has a wordpress website regarding these two..

  • @DougFCKNSteele ok ty sweetie for the info

  • @DougFCKNSteele makes you a murderer to dumbshit

  • @marsakka I don't mind killing a child killer. Funny that you call me a dumbshit when you you use the wrong word; it's 'too' you fucking dope. Smoke another bong, child.

  • @DougFCKNSteele its the internet like grammer fucking matters, but so this kid did kill a child, then say you kill this child 2 days after that doesnt that make you a murderer/child killer your still taking a human life and it makes you just as bad. dont pull that if it was one of your family members bullshit b/c yes I have had a family member murdered and still think this way it is still a human life. everyone deserves a 2nd chance.

  • @marsakka Well, that's the difference between you and I. I'd have no problem torturing and killing Venables and the other guy. Once you take another life, you forfeit your own, period.

  • @DougFCKNSteele killing someone over someone else's mistakes?? hmm sounds familiar...

  • @pinkthunderwonder Giselle, I won't be killing anyone ever. But if I read in the news that a mob found these little cunts and kicked them to death, I doubt I'd cry.

  • @DougFCKNSteele Lmfao they aren't little anymore, douche. And yeah I wouldn't cry either lmfao. Who says I would? Their acts were disgusting, but at the same time I believe Jon was in heart, a good person... deep down I can tell. With Robert, I have no idea... since he's the one who actually went through with the attack entirely. It would though, sadden me that humanity would resort in such a violent cycle of sick behavior. Don't tell me revenge is the only way... that's just an excuse for more

  • look nonename The US has it's fair share of killers so don't say that the UK is bad cuz you are worse or the same

  • thank you?dsmith019

  • um... I think all he was trying to do was draw what he saw in the movie.

  • @MessyASiA You may be on to something there. Kids do that a lot. Your comment was right on target. Plus, boys are not afraid to get gory with their art work. I think he snapped about something else and killed. good one.

  • my dad was a child physiatrist, IM not saying it doesnt mean shit.what I meant is if you look at enough pic has a dr,alot of kids draw really crazy bad things.and it could mean bad,,or good things thats all.or nothing,you have a boy that did very bad things to another boy,that was him.if there was a child that did nothing ,it would just be a ..well .kinda problem drawing,thats all.get it.

  • means nothing,my dad is a child dr.mind dr.and this painting could mean something or just a childs drawing.the boy was must likely a abused child.dunno,sad.

  • @yvonnespearing what are you saying!!! your father is a dr child mind dr???????? and if your father is a mind dr child dr and he says this means nothing then he needs to go back to medical school and i would suggest a different medical school... cause if he is a child dr mind dr or whatever you wanna call him and he thinks that this is nothing then i gurantee you he got robbed on his "edumacation"!!!!

  • @yvonnespearing In my opinion (and who am I?..Lol) I believe that this child watches too many scary movies. Children often draw what they have seen, and have active imaginations, to boot. I bet someone in his home watches horror movies and he has become accustomed to the visual images. This is one of the reasons that they put a rating on movies before we buy them. He no doubt has psychotic episodes. I say that because no one snaps and kills. This was waiting to come to the surface at some point.

  • I used to draw things like this and my teacher actually talked to my mum and then my mum talked to me and then I stopped drawing like that. Lol I would say that I feel like I just copy people when socialising and using personalities but I would say that I'm quite normal and I haven't done anything bad.

  • That drawing is a load of shit

    People say what they did was horrible but thet want paparazzi 2 make it seem worse and worse just to make hell for these boys

  • I used to draw stuff like this for years when I was a kid. I think it's exactly what regular little boys draw. :)

  • Both Venables and Thompson showed signs of disturbance LONG before they tortured and killed little James Bulger, and nothing was done to treat them beforehand. It's the responsibility of the adults in the kids' lives to have stepped in and done something, and they didn't. I've also heard reports that Venables' mother was abusive. When she raised her voice to him in his confession tapes he started to cry . . . . I think he may have been afraid of her, not the other way around.

  • you must treat EVIL WITH EVIL. these two are MONSTERS, FREAKS of nature. any HUMAN BEING capable of what these two did are simply EVIL seeds of nature.

  • what made them kill? it is just so scary.....

  • I just draw much worse shit, never killed living thing in my life, if eating bacon doesnt count.

  • the drawing might have nothing to do with the murder brothers kid is nine and he loves playing with tanks and drawing people getting blown up by bombs. it could be a film that venables had seen.

    i know venables mother and she is realy nice no denying her son was out of control but children are capible of thinking for themselves at ten she was scared of her son and therfore not able to control him so those people who are claiming to hunt her down and kill her have got it all wrong

  • Everyone knows these kids are/were weird,freak,nutters and are messed up in the head! When I was ten,I wasn't aloud out on my own,when I was ten I'd be playing with my farm set!

    They are monsters,not in the making but fully formed.They have new identities now and everything,they might even be your neibor!!

  • @singingrabbit123 you weren`t "aloud" when you were ten?! :) I would expect nothing less from a school drop-out. is it some crazy social class thing you have going on over there? not knowing your own native language that is?

  • @autentyk Your comment was rude and offending.

  • @singingrabbit123 but so true.

  • @autentyk go away.

  • @singingrabbit123 if i ever found out i had a nextdoor neighbor such as this..they would suffer from a terrible " accident"

  • Kill them .. Kill the Parents and kill anything else that even tries to think along those lines. Simple solution! Rehab, uses mine and your money, and to be honest that same cunt who you are paying for could have killed your kid. Denise Bulger (Fergus) had to actually pay for her killer to live as a percentage of her tax 50p goes to the taking care of the monster/molester/killer/ etc.. So there we go solution given, case fucking closed, anyone wants to comment, you best be careful! ABC OUT!

  • @TurthIsIt you forgot to add "burn the witch, burn!" :) which Monty Python flick was that?

  • lol, tits on on the dude

  • this guys in jail again for child pornography and that robert thompson is with his gay partner

  • I want to kill the motherfuckers

  • I don't think this drawing was made by Venables. People have persistently made up all kind of nonsense around both Thompson and Venables, as in an intentional attempt to make worse what is already bad.

    Besides, I've seen way more disturbing drawings made by children who are perfectly normal or at least not violent at all.

  • Die James Bulger's murderers. Burn in hell. May your balls get cut off before you did. May you get beaten by a bunch of niggas. May you get your heart cut in half by a chainsaw. I don't give a damn if they were ten. ten years olds can be evil as well. Fuck you UK for ever letting them go free. The UK is fucked up

  • wtf is wrong with you people how can you be so heartless yeah a 2 year old boy was killed so what did any one of you think its human nature to kill what about the wars in irak do you ink they have problems killing cuz i don't think they do and you people think its weird for drawings like that HA you people make me sick  there was something wrong with the child don't you people see that i'm not its right

  • Look think it through about what they went through that drove them to kill so people can stop those problems because if the problems are not fixed then alot more kids are going to Kill and commite crimes because just arresting them and putting them in jail is one thing stoping to what makes people kill is what really matters as well

  • @SuperMrCRAZYMAN  There was two boys.

  • i'm glad this psycho is again in jail, i hope he never leave again

  • this sick bastard needs to die

  • at least that evil fuck venables is back in jail im gonna kill them both if i can find em

  • I think this kid likes the feeling of power through promoting himself greater then others and feels satisfied when he is able to show his "dominence"

  • it looks like a picture of a samurai killing in a movie...was he watching kung fu movies at home? thats all it looks like to me

  • why did he draw himself with a six pack

  • i think it verry sick and sad thing but what in hell was happening to these 10yr olds to make them to such a thing there dosent seam to be any mention of there parets that i can find what were they doing. shurly they must ask them selfes were they went wrong but what

  • @camdash thompson was in and out of care all his life. venables had a normal upbringing. these bastards need to be slaughtered and fed to the pigs

  • @kirbyhater2 totaly 100% think they shuold never be ralesed just ya never here aboult there parents

    it sad sumtimes theres seams not to be resons for theses thing just sad sick people

  • This was disturbing for me.. i watched the story 1 week ago and i cant forget this story..R.I.P little james, now you're in the real beautiful world..but its so hard if you believe the pain of james..

    when i remeber this story my first thought is KILL

  • my mum worked on this case when she worked as a lawyer x rip little jamie x

  • The State should have put them in a secure unit til 18 then should have locked them up for life. Either that or the death penalty should have been brought back. They did it, they were and are sick individuals with no remorse whatsoever.

  • kids shouldn't be left to watch murderous films that they can't process. i was left watch them myself, but luckily i was part of the majority of kids who got nothing more out of them than being absolutely fucking terrified.

    but you can't blame films for this kinda thing. i mean, people don't give the film industry credit when kids do something good so they shouldn't blame films (or computer games) when they do something bad.

  • The papers tried pinning the blame of this tragedy on Child's play 3,now it appears with this video it was Halloween. Are horror films going to be the scapegoat for all violent children ? Sure they can influence them but I think their has to be some serious problems with the child in the first place.

  • @86Stooy The intention of this video is not to blame any film for what happened. It is simply documenting the drawing that Venables did before the murder. He obviously saw Halloween as he had written some stuff about it with the drawing, but that doesn't mean the film influenced him to murder. It's just interesting to some people to view the drawing done by a child who went onto kill.

  • Wauw - After reading these comments i realize that not so many of you believe in a greater God, sadly! I Understand that is it easy to loss faith when such thing happens in these manors. No sympathy from me for this man - just saying that most of you saying that he deserve to die - are no better then this sick kid whom toke another souls life. Please walk in peace folks - people will sooner or latter meet their maker. RIP James

  • just read in the paper today that the prison authories are not allowed to tell him that he is putting on weight in case it "upsets" him.....well if he reads this ... venables you big fat fucker lets hope the screws leave your cell door unlocked and you get gang raped you sick kiddie fucker

  • I hate how now they are grown up they are allowed to roam free with new identities& new lives, as if nothing has happened. They have basically got away with it; the life they led in the juvenile detainment unit was luxury - playstations, the lot! Everyone has their human rights, but they took a life and they should lose ANY rights to privacy or protection. The inhumane and barbaric fashion in which they treated poor James was utterly horrific. 10 years old or not, they know right from wrong.

  • Strange. The drawing was supposed to represent the Halloween movie, but the murderer, the child dressed in a clown suit, has breasts drawn on him. Interesting. Was it ever released that his mother was abusive?

  • not a bad drawing for a ten year old, none of the people have necks in the drawing tho, i'd probably pick him up on that. Still a good attempt nevertheless.

  • To think that I have to share my first name with that sociopath, Thompson.

  • Leave John venables alone! Yeh sick what he did and we all know his new name Paul Jon Williams but after he gets his new name I have faith in him to be good everyone pray to god help him overcome this evil!

  • @markfoybhoy Crap he is a poison,evil,inhuman little psycho who should have been chained up and tortured every day for the whole of his life. I suspect you dont have kids?Cos i do one 12 and one 2 and if anyone hurt them man, woman, or child i would fucking rip them apart. No normal kid would do something like that they were deeply damaged kids and its so obvious jon at least is a more dangerous deeply damaged adult. I'm sorry but what they did to that baby was pure evil and thats what they are.

  • @markfoybhoy He was rearrested for having hundreds of child pornography images on his computer. Would you want him to live next door to you and your family while he "overcomes this evil"?

  • They should kill himI was shocked when I watched the scenes of who took the boyand they should kill the other boy because some young murders get put In this killing thing

  • this sent shiver's up my body and i'm allmost crying this is sick talk about war this is worst that a country getting nuke'd this is so sad i hope they hae secretly killed them 2 cunts.!!!!!!.:[

  • Think this is bad? ... you'd not wanna see what I used to draw as a kid hahahha

  • you can see his identity and picture here jonvenables dot co m hes a scumbag

  • These murderers make me feel physically sick how could they torture someone so horrificaly?

  • I was teaching Russian kids aged 7-9  in 2007 and they all drew massacres, blood and guts all the time. Their favourite computer game was Grand Theft Auto though.

  • both of them came from abusive environments. I feel bad for them in a way. I mean, I know they became murdering psychopaths but in my opinion those people are not born, but created. I feel bad for the children they were BEFORE they were turned into psychopaths.

  • ok, i'm not from the UK, so.. i have no first hand experience of the "mood" of people surrounding this case and the emotional biases festering among those who want these young adults to be publically embowled ^^. having said that.. i think it's a little bit depressing how so many can't seem to separate the concept of justice from vengeance, one guy says "they need more severe punishment not rehabilitation". and the next guy goes: "how do we know they wont reoffend?".... errm. by rehabilitating?

  • @Djsouthpaw1987

    Looks like the "rehabilitation" that didn't work. One of them is back in jail for child porn offences. (the boy in the video)

  • @HereInTheDarkness

    Child porn, as horrifying and sickening as it is, is not even vaguely in the same ball park as murder, so I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw re: Venables' rehabilitation from that.

  • @llanbo We can draw the conclusion that he still presents a danger to children and society. He shouldn't have been let out in the first place.

  • @HereInTheDarkness Thompson is living a normal life by all accounts without any real problems, though hes under an assumed name right now. I think he went along with venables out of fear. Venables was tested and found to be a psychopath, he'll probably spend most of the rest of his life in and out of jail.

  • @TheCaptainLulz wasn't thompson the one that did most of the harm to the boy they killed though? i heard venables was the less aggressor

  • @codeman95291 Might have been, but venables has mental illness and keeps getting in trouble.

  • @TheCaptainLulz , well, Thompson seemed to have no remorse, he was the instigator (even the detectives agreed with this), he in fact bullied Venables at school at times. He was leader, Venables was the follower, as was established at school. Thompson also didn't admit to killing James until he was in therapy while in juvenile detention. Venables was the one who confessed and continually expressed remorse.

  • @Muirmaiden K, than, I guess I have the 2 confused, sorry bout that.

  • @HereInTheDarkness I remember this case vividly. They both stated they did not want to be released from jail. Maybe this was the way that one got back in. I cannot understand for the life of me two children so young capable of murdering a poor, little 2 yr old. Not just straight out murder, torture before they killed him.

  • @empressofthefrench , it does seem like Venables was looking for an excuse to go back - he began revealing his true identity to people like he wanted to be found out and possibly killed. I think he cracked under the pressure and is probably still haunted by what he did, whereas Thompson perhaps never did feel remorse (it took a few years for him to admit his part in killing James). Thompson was also considered by the parole board to be psychopathic.

  • @HereInTheDarkness and the other is "fine", last I heard he was giving talks about rehabilitation to young offenders. He's done his time, he's admitted what he did, has shown remorse for it and atleast now he's doing some good. Just because Venables wasn't "cured", doesn't mean rehabilitation isn't a great idea or that it doesn't work in most cases.

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 ..yes you're not from the UK..so back off.

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 - you're just wrong. i lived this, i saw the video, i heard the police tapes, i read the depositions. they smashed his head in with a brick, threw paint on him, laid his body on a train track. rehab???

    even as a former law student i am unable to stand this case with impartiality. this murder was grisly in the darkest sense. killing a grown up has some room for the witness to reason with, but to kill a toddler in such a fashion leaves no room for rehab.

  • @polomint82 Well said, i feel sorry for the poor innocent people who come into contact with the boys in their new lives under witness protection. They should have been caged forever like the wild animals they are and not put among the unsuspecting public.It makes me sick to think anyone could even think they could be "cured" they were inhuman,what child could do that to a little baby?I know my son couldn't and i couldn't as a 10 year old.They should never have been released.

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 Want to try that again? Venables had several scuffles with the law (relocating closer to the Bulger murder site, public drunkeness) before being rearrested for having loads of CHILD PORNOGRAPHY on his personal computer exhibiting children from the ages of 3 on being RAPED. And these are onl;y the things we know about. Sick little bastard should've been pitched off of a cliff.

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 It's pretty simple really. If someone takes a life, and is fully aware of the destruction and pain they have caused (which jon venables was proven to have been in court), I really don't see what right they have to live? Why should one live if they've taken anothers' life? Where on earth is the justice in that? Why should tax-payers pay to rehabilitate a child (thousands and thousands of pounds per child) who killed a harmless little boy. Get some sense.

  • @EmilyStation1994

    it's NOT "pretty simple", nor is the area of ethics in general. Keeping them in prison for life is probably a lot more expensive than comprehencive and good rehabilitation in a humane manner, so your cost complaint is a moot point. Further more, if you can't see someones basic right to a life because you have to rationalize as to deal with the facts of their crime, then i pitty you, and i'm glad you're not a judge, they can't view things in black and white as little girls do

  • @Djsouthpaw1987 Keeping them in prison for life is probably more expensive than rehabilitation? I wasn't arguing that it wasn't. However both options are incredibly expensive; it costs around 140,000 per year to rehabilitate a young person. It would be a lot more inexpensive to end their life humanely via lethal injection. You seem to think that someone has "a basic right to life" even if they end another, I wonder if you'd feel the same if someone raped and murdered your mother?