WITH鈥?4he news now broken that鈥?aon Venables, one of the two children convicted of killing toddler James Bulger in 1993, has been returned to prison after breaching his conditions of release, we should ask ourselves who precisely is demanding that details are made public and, more importantly, why.

James Bulger's family are understandably the most vocal about wishing to have this information. It's natural that the victims of the ruinous crime will forever be tormented by every aspect of it, and being kept in the dark concerning the whereabouts and activities of the two killers, now 27-year-old men, must form part of that pain. Perhaps, they think, they might have already encountered Venables or Robert Thompson on the street without knowing it. How can they be sure they haven't sat beside one of them at a football match or queued behind them in the supermarket? Perhaps the Bulgers unconsciously hunt in the sea of faces every time they are confronted with a crowd, or maybe that subconscious search among strangers is instead a longing to see the face of their own son, now forever lost. Who can be sure? But while their deepest motivation for wishing to be informed about Venables must remain mere guesswork on our part, the fact remains that they do not have the legal right Zenith Replica Watches to know.

The reason for this is quite clear. Informing the victim's family could lead to a breach of anonymity, intentional or unintentional, and the law has been tasked with keeping the new identity of the two murderers secret.

So who else is demanding that this law be broken? Ah yes. The Sun newspaper. It wants us to sign a petition to put Venables back on the front pages where he belongs. Oh, and the Daily Mail. And Carol Vorderman, bizarrely, judging by her peculiar, shouty indignation on last week's Question Time.

But why? Well, we can't speak for Vorderman, as she was unable to give an intelligent reason why outing Venables would be a good thing for anyone involved, so the origins of her strident insistence will have to remain a mystery. But The Sun and Daily Mail's agenda is at least crystal clear. It would sell more newspapers.

Tabloids are normally astute at taking the temperature of the lowest common denominator. They read the empty mind of the bigot, they celebrate the actions of the fat women with buggies who enjoy screaming obscenities at paedophiles outside court rooms, and they enrage the little Englander at the drop of a hat with a story about greedy immigrants or burglars who take their victims to court. Mostly they get it right, and these are the customers who buy the rags to reinforce their prejudices and nurse their wrath. But in this case there's just the slightest chance the tabloid editors may have got it wrong.

The Bulger case was unique, not just in its shocking brutality, but because it was one of the few cases in which the public felt not just revulsion but a quiet sense of collective shame. Thompson and Venables came from violent, dysfunctional families, Thompson himself having been a victim of appalling torture and Venables suffering from unchecked behavioural problems from a very early age. Although the children were known to be suffering at home, by school and neighbours alike, no-one came to their aid. Equally, on the day of James's murder, his last walk to the lonely railway track where he died was witnessed by more than 30 members of the public. Only two challenged the boys, because of James's distress, but not one single person replica breitling intervened or even thought to report it later.

The murder was a wake-up call to a non-interventionist society, faces turned the other way bot
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