Bulger Killer Jon Venables: Child Pornography Found on Hardrive

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Police monitoring Jon Venables  have discovered child pornography on the convicted killer's computer.

Venables is reported to have been bragging about his true identity on several social networking sites including Facebook as well as in local pubs.

Venables will apparently be given a new identity again at the taxpayers' expense. 

History of the Venables Case

James Bulger was just two years old when Jon Venables and Robert Thompson abducted him from a shopping Mall in Liverpool, England. The two abducters were themselves just 10 years old.

In 1994, then UK Home Secretary Michael Howard increased the sentences of the two killers to 15 years, citing a petition signed by more than 275,000 people in support of life sentences and thousands of other signatures and letters demanding life terms or minimum 25-year sentences.

That was later overturned following judicial review proceedings by the House of Lords. In March 1999, the European Commission of Human Rights ruled that Thompson and Venables were unfairly treated because their trial was "severely intimidatory" and held in a "highly charged" atmosphere. 

The panel voted 14-5 that the proceedings violated Article 6 of the European Human Rights Convention. In December 1999, the European Court of Human Rights, echoing the conclusion of the European Commission of Human Rights, rulesdthat Thompson and Venables had been treated unfairly because they were tried as adults.

The European court says the rights of the two boys also were violated by the decision of then-British Home Secretary Michael Howard to increase their sentences to 15 years.

The European court did not void Thompson's and Venables' sentences, but put pressure on Britain to amend legal practices, such as the right of a government minister to set prison terms for minors or send juveniles accused of serious offenses to trial in an adult court.