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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Venables and Thompson [1997] UKHL 25 is a UK constitutional law case, concerning the exercise of independent judgement in judicial review. Facts
[3] [4] Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, where Bulger was visiting shops with his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two and a half miles (four kilometres) away in Walton, Liverpool, two days later. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with abduction and ...
Thompson and Venables were jailed for life but released on licence with new identities in 2001. Venables, now 40, was sent back to prison in 2010 and 2017 for possessing indecent images of children.
The mother of murder victim James Bulger has “begged” the parole board overseeing the potential release of her son’s killer Jon Venables not to set him free as a hearing takes place this ...
According to a summary of the Parole Board’s latest decision, Venables had “accepted that he had a long-term sexual interest in children/indecent images of children”, despite taking part in ...
The film has an 83% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10. [4]Malcolm Stevens, who oversaw the detention of the killers as the former Home Secretary's professional adviser, defended the making of the film in an editorial, saying that it raised questions regarding the treatment of young offenders which he felt "successive ...
A parole hearing for Jon Venables, one of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger, will take place in private after requests to have the proceedings in public were rejected.
R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Fire Brigades Union [1995] UKHL 3 is a House of Lords case concerning the awarding of compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. The case is considered significant in constitutional terms for its ruling on the extent of ministerial prerogative powers.