James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables ‘given ANOTHER identity and moves to new prison after lags threats’
JAMES Bulger's killer Jon Venables has been moved prison and given another identity after threats by fellow lags, according to reports.
According to The Mirror, the child killer was moved because inmates 'circulated a banned picture of him using illegal mobile phones.'
A source told the paper: "He has to be handled very carefully at all times because there are so many people who want to get at him.
"He's been told to try keep a low profile," the source said, adding he was urged to by managers to stay as 'anonymous as possible' at the new prison.
It has also been claimed that he is being protected by six prison guards amid fears he could be attacked again.
He was discreetly driven to the new prison under guard last week.
Venables is one half of a pair of notorious child killers who senselessly murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.
He was just ten years old when he abducted the two-year-old from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, with his friend Robert Thompson.
The evil pair tortured and murdered the tot, whose body was found by a railway line.
Venables and Thompson were found guilty of Bulger's abduction and murder on November 24, 1993 - making them the youngest people to be jailed for murder in English criminal history.
Venables is understood to have been living in a secret location in the North of England under a second new identity given to him following his release from prison in 2013.
Since being freed, Venables alone is thought to have cost the public around £5million.
In February 2018 the twisted paedophile pleaded guilty to having more than 1,000 indecent images of children and was jailed for 40 months.
On February 18 the reported that Venables had been "attacked in prison with boiling water after an inmate discovered his identity".
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