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My whole childhood time line is screwed up.
The legal bar on identifying them applies in the UK but it would not necessarily apply to magazines overseas.
The pair were just 10 years old when they abducted toddler James Bulger from the Strand shopping precinct in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.
They walked then two-year-old more than a mile to a railway line and killed him using bricks, a metal bar and a branch.
In 2001, the Parole Board ruled that Thompson and Venables were no longer a danger to the public after they had spent eight years in secure accommodation.
The killers have new names known only to a small circle of officials.
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Site Web Search: Advanced Search Browse Archive Injunction On Killers' IDs
Updated:07:22, Sunday April 08, 2007
The Home Office has spent 13,000 of taxpayers' money preventing overseas magazines from revealing the new identities of the James Bulger killers.
James BulgerGovernment figures - disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act - showed the sum went on legal fees, VAT and other costs.
Strict guidelines restricting media coverage of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, now both 24, were imposed by the High Court in 2001 to protect them from revenge attacks.
They were granted an open-ended High Court injunction protecting their anonymity.
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said the two had to be protected due to a "real possibility of serious physical harm and possible death from vengeful members of the public".
The toddler being led awayA Home Office spokeswoman said the spending related to obtaining a specific injunction against a foreign title.
The legal bar on identifying them applies in the UK but it would not necessarily apply to magazines overseas.
The pair were just 10 years old when they abducted toddler James Bulger from the Strand shopping precinct in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.
They walked then two-year-old more than a mile to a railway line and killed him using bricks, a metal bar and a branch.
In 2001, the Parole Board ruled that Thompson and Venables were no longer a danger to the public after they had spent eight years in secure accommodation.
The killers have new names known only to a small circle of officials.
SORRY I ONLY COPIED HALF THE STORY JUST BEFORE xxxxx
apparantly, one of them has a girlfriend and she has no idea of his true identity, and she is going to marry him!