James Bulger: why killer Jon Venables will not be identified

Murdered toddler’s father and uncle challenging order protecting freed murderer’s anonymity

Jon Venables
Ten-year-old Jon Venables following his arrest in 1993
(Image credit: BWP Media via Getty Images)

The father and uncle of James Bulger have lost a legal challenge to overturn the lifelong anonymity protecting one of the murdered toddler’s killers, Jon Venables.

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