Behind bars in one of Britain’s highest security prisons, Jon Venables bears almost no resemblance to the ten-year-old boy whose face will forever be synonymous with one of the most evil crimes of the 20th century.
Most of the guards who watch over him have no idea that the unremarkable middle-aged prisoner in their midst is the same individual who, in 1993, along with Robert Thompson, snatched toddler James Bulger from a Merseyside shopping centre before torturing and killing him.
He has a new name and fictional back story. Even his medical records are fake. ‘His identity is one of the best
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