British man convicted in 1993 murder of 2-year-old released from prison
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One of two men who were convicted in the grisly murder of a 2-year-old British boy in 1993 has been released from prison for a second time.
Jon Venables was 10 years old when he and Robert Thompson were found guilty of abducting Bulger from a shopping center, beating him to death with bricks and stones, and then leaving his mutilated body on railroad tracks in Liverpool.
Venables served an eight-year-prison term and was released in 2001. Now 31, Venables is being let out of prison again after pleading guilty to downloading and distributing child pornography in 2010.
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He has been given a second new identity at a cost of $428,000, Sky News reports.
A friend, who was not named, said Bulger’s father, Ralph, fears that Venables will commit more crime.
She told Sky News that Bulger’s family was given little information about Venables’ release.
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