Bulger killer Venables on child porn charges
Tuesday 22nd June 2010, 9:29AM BST.
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Jon Venables, one of the killers of toddler James Bulger, will appear in court next month charged with child porn offences.
Venables, 27, is expected to enter his pleas to two charges through a prison videolink to the Old Bailey on July 23.
They allege he downloaded 57 indecent photographs of children on to his computer, and in doing so, made seven images available to others on the internet while the process was taking place.
The charges could not be reported until now because of an injunction imposed by Mr Justice Bean last month.
Yesterday he lifted the injunction following an application by the media. Gavin Millar QC, for the director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer, said he would read the charges for the record of proceedings. He said: “A man known as Jon Venables has been charged with two offences.”
Venables was accused of downloading on to his computer 57 indecent photographs of children between February last year and February this year.
Venables and Robert Thompson were jailed for life for the 1993 murder of two-year-old James, who was led away from a shopping centre in Liverpool by the then ten-year-olds.
They were jailed for life but released on licence in 2001 and given new identities.
Venables was recalled to prison in February this year, following the new allegations.
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