I knew the lady that interwiewed Venables & Thompson, who is now deceased. She was a specialist for the police in interviewing children mainly who had been sexually abused & wasn't allowed to tell anyone about the interviews.
A few years ago she told me that not all of the atrocities those boys did to Jamie we're publicised due to thier graphic nature.
Like they cut his fingers off with scissors, and cut his penis off & stuck it in his mouth.
What was publicised was that they beat him with bricks & an iron bar, poured paint into his eyes, pushed batteries in his anus, Thompson kicked him in the face so hard the imprint of his metal shoelace hoops on his face.
Then laid him on the train tracks so a train running over him would destroy the evidence.
It is beyond belief what they did to that poor little boy. I know they were young themselves but at that age they still knew right from wrong, and they knew that was wrong, very wrong.
Me personally think that what they did to Jamie should be done to them, so they understand what pain & suffering that boy felt in the last hours of his young life.
I do think a death sentence would be apt for this crime, none of them has showed any remorse or regret over this crime, and is obvious that Venables hasn't changed his ways so to speak & learnt from his time in care & rehabilation. He's just moved onto drink, drugs & child porn.
Soon to be released back into society with a new identity costing tax payer hundreds of thousands, again.
These men do not deserve to live let alone live in our society protected & lazily supervised so it seems.
As soon as they were adults they should have been executed..This crime was so evil & awful it can only be the just punishment I think.
Or be imprisoned for life at the very least. Especially in the light of recent events.
Venables is a danger to society especially children.