No surprise here.

Is there anyone out there that is genuinely shocked that Jon Venables has committed another heinous offence? If so, why?

Anyone who can kill a toddler in the way he and Robert Thompson did, at the age they were, has to have something very wrong going on inside.

I mean, why a child? A domestic pet I could just about understand - through curosity - but another human being? Even at that age they would have known that killing anything was wrong, so to go for a life of the highest rated species on this planet? Surely they knew how bad what they were doing was, I cannot for one instant believe they did not.

I have always been convinced that it was only a matter of time that one, if not both, would strike again in some way. And here we are. Well done to the government clowns that let this happen by releasing them from prison after just eight years. And not even prison at that, just juvy. Here is the prime reason why they should have gone to prison and spent more time inside. Nevermind that they could have learnt more bad ways while inside (you are trying to tell me that they would not have learnt enough already anyay?), a taste of real prison may have scared them enough that they would not have wanted to go back. Ever. But no, the psychologists knew best, they were rehabilitated and ready to go free. Rehabilitated my arse. No one that sick, at that age is ever going to be truly rehabilitated. That is going to be in there for life. It seems some people are just born evil, it just usually takes more time to come to light.

So if it is true that Venables has been sent back to prison over child porn offences, who is going to take the blame for this? We are never going to know the full extent of what he has done this time, just like we did not last time, because it, apparently, is not 'in the public interest'. No? Then in whose is it? We are the ones that could have been living next door to him for the last eight years. I wonder if the families of the new victims know? I bet they do not.

Those two boys should have been told upon release that if they messed up and were returned to prison, that they would not get another new identity, that they would have to live with the consequences. The amount of money wasted on giving them new identities is just galling. Not that it would matter much in Venables case if the papers are to be believed and he has been telling people who he really is. If he has been doing that then he is obviously not all there, and still a very broken individual.

Never mind casting him back behind bars, a padded cell might be a better permanent home.