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Monday, June 21, 2010

Jon Venables charged with downloading child pornography

Jon Venables charged with downloading child pornography

The problem I have with this is that he has already spent ages in custody. In effect, punished first then charged before trial.

Kafkaesque...

UPDATE:

Now BBC reports story...

Bulger killer Jon Venables faces child porn charges

One of the two killers of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993 has been charged with possession and distribution of indecent images of children.

Jon Venables, now 27, was recalled to prison in February after allegedly breaching the terms of his licence.

He was released from jail in 2001 and given a new identity and anonymity for life under a special court order.

Venables is charged with two offences under the 1978 Protection of Children Act.

It is alleged that he downloaded 57 indecent images of children in the year to this February.

He is secondly accused of distributing seven images by allowing other people to access the files on his computer through a peer-to-peer network.


Although the MoJ has a news section there is no press release in relation to the above story.
jailhouselawyer at 4:44 PM

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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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