Is Child Killer Jon Venables Dead? Social Media Rumors Debunked
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Rumors are going around on Twitter that Child killer Jon Venables has died, but that’s not authentic news. It is a confirmation on Wednesday night that is October 6th that the child is alive. Ministry of Justice shared with Daily Stat News that rumors are stupid.
Why Jon Venables is famous?
When Jon was 10 years old, he murdered 2 years old James Bulge. Now, Jon Venables is a 39 years old man. In Merseyside, he kidnapped the baby from a shopping mall with his friend Robert Thompson before killing him, then later he threw the body to a railway track. They made Britain shocked when they got to know about the case which happened in 1993, it never happened over 250 years. Jon and Robert are the youngest people who were in jail for murder. Twitter claimed that in Port Talbot in Wales he has been murdered, and his eyes had been gauged out. But, the 39 years old is alive, and it was fake news that was going through by Twitter
They both did a heinous crime, with the judge at their trial in November 1993, brand ing James’ murder an act of “unparalleled evil and barbarity.”
Court released them under strict conditions in 2001 and gave new identities, but Venables falling continuously foul of the law and was put behind bars once again for more horrific crimes.
Where is Jon Venables at the moment?
Now in 2021, Jon Venables is in a maximum Category A jail after he was caught with child abuse images. Since then, after the murder of James Bulge, Jon comes out and in on many occasions.
In St Helen’s, he was in a secure children’s unit, for eight years. In Merseyside before releasing and granted lifelong anonymity. Which means he had given a new identity and name to, like a normal and healthy life. Venables got a new identity with a fabricated passport, qualification certificates, and medical records. Before releasing three years later in 2013, indecent photos were downloading and distributing in 2010.
In 2017, the authority called him again, he again went back to jail for 40 months in 2018. The reason was of catching up again for child abuse images for possessing over thousand indecent images. Then made a bid for parole, but it didn’t approve in 2020.
