The mother of James Bulger reacted with disgust and anger last night to revelations that one of her son’s killers had sex with a female guard. Jon Venables had a tryst with the woman in an empty building at his secure children’s home in 2000 – shortly before he was granted parole.
The guard has not been prosecuted over the sordid episode, which took place when the killer was 17.
Denise Fergus, whose toddler son James was tortured and killed by Venables and his accomplice Robert Thompson, is now demanding a Government inquiry amid claims of a decade-long ‘cover-up’.
And she questioned whether Venables would have been cleared for release in 2001 if the Parole Board had been aware of the incident at Red Bank secure unit in Merseyside.
Officials had been told that Venables – who is now back in jail for possession of child pornography – had been making good progress.
It was reported yesterday that five independent sources were aware of an incident of sexual misconduct – and Red Bank’s attempts to cover it up. (read more)
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