Well that makes me feel old. I remember the case at the time and the understandable hysteria surrounding it esp the shots of them leading the child out of shops. It was an enormous news story at the time.
It doesn’t seem as if Venables has been rehabilitated to me if he has been sent back to prison twice for possessing indecent images of children.
I genuinely thought he was out by now and living under an assumed name. Wasn’t there a fuss about that a few years back?
I live right next door to Bootle strand shopping centre, I probably go in there about 3 times a week as it’s so convenient (but also a very depressing and run down place). At the time of little James’s murder I was roughly the same age as him. My mum used to go the strand (with me with her) at least twice a week, she even regularly went into the same butchers James’s mum was in when they snatched him just outside.
When I think about it hard it gives me chills to think about the possibility that they might have been eyeing me up at one point as a potential child to abduct. I remember getting lost in the strand when I was about 5 (a couple of years later) what sticks in my mind is the memory of being reunited with my mum by a security guard and her clutching me in her arms sobbing. It’s only years later that I can reflect on how she must have felt at that moment, or what might have been going through her mind before she found me again.
Where I live we take it personally when they continually choose to give this sick twisted person second ( third, fourth?) chances, probably because for some of us it easily could gave been us.
He can ask, hopefully sense will prevail and the answer will be no.
“They served eight years of a life sentence”
What’s the point of a life sentence if they’re not in there for life?
He’s clearly not reformed, he’s still fantasizing about abusing kids – which is what put him in jail “for life”.
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Well that makes me feel old. I remember the case at the time and the understandable hysteria surrounding it esp the shots of them leading the child out of shops. It was an enormous news story at the time.
It doesn’t seem as if Venables has been rehabilitated to me if he has been sent back to prison twice for possessing indecent images of children.
I genuinely thought he was out by now and living under an assumed name. Wasn’t there a fuss about that a few years back?
I live right next door to Bootle strand shopping centre, I probably go in there about 3 times a week as it’s so convenient (but also a very depressing and run down place). At the time of little James’s murder I was roughly the same age as him. My mum used to go the strand (with me with her) at least twice a week, she even regularly went into the same butchers James’s mum was in when they snatched him just outside.
When I think about it hard it gives me chills to think about the possibility that they might have been eyeing me up at one point as a potential child to abduct. I remember getting lost in the strand when I was about 5 (a couple of years later) what sticks in my mind is the memory of being reunited with my mum by a security guard and her clutching me in her arms sobbing. It’s only years later that I can reflect on how she must have felt at that moment, or what might have been going through her mind before she found me again.
Where I live we take it personally when they continually choose to give this sick twisted person second ( third, fourth?) chances, probably because for some of us it easily could gave been us.
He can ask, hopefully sense will prevail and the answer will be no.
“They served eight years of a life sentence”
What’s the point of a life sentence if they’re not in there for life?
He’s clearly not reformed, he’s still fantasizing about abusing kids – which is what put him in jail “for life”.