To ask your thoughts on Jon Venables joining a dating site?

[Sallystyle]

With his new name no one can do a google search on him and find his history.

He was found not long ago with images of child abuse.

Should he be able to get on with his life now he is out of prison? Of course he can just as easily meet someone in the pub.

I just had a debate with a family member about this so interested in your thoughts.

Link here

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/james-bulger-killer-jon-venables-5039227

bottle if that comment was to me I don't see how you can say I'm on the bandwagon from one sentence. I haven't said anything about whether or not I think they should have been/are rehabilitated.

The point I was making is JV's life has not been 'destroyed' in the same way as Jamie Bulger's. One was viciously murdered as a baby. The other is still free enough to be able to access and enjoy child porn fgs! You can't really compare the two and maintain a sympathetic view to JV in my opinion.

James Bulger. Not Jamie. James.

Nope, the comments were very general. I have absolutely no sympathy with JV for the crimes he committed as an adult.

Apologies then bottle - I wasn't sure I definitely think the fact he's went on to commit horrible crimes as an adult is clouding the issue of how they were treated as 10 year olds.

I can see both sides of the argument but if the discussion had been about Robert Thompson people may have been more sympathetic as he appears to have been successfully rehabilitated. JV doesn't even seem to be remorseful.

It's certainly not what people expected is it? Thompson was the evil one and JV the sheep. The rumours that went around at the time (I live two miles from The Strand and logistically it never made any sense that it was a pre meditated crime "let's get a kid") I actually DID hear one of them was called Bobby way before they were named, a lucky guess or genuine info coming from somewhere I don't know. Another one that annoys me is the rumours of what was actually done to James. Of course we didn't hear it all, and sometimes it's like people are desperate to know the details while hiding it behind interested concern. Isn't what we do know bad enough?

I hate the way the press wheel his mum out at every opportunity, she doesn't come across well on TV, she doesn't articulate herself very well (absolutely no criticism) I've seen her around and actually she's a tiny, very attractive lady. I think the media use her to whip up more hatred and another non news story and that's deplorable.