John Venables – The lynch mob and our ‘broken society’

Adam Ford of The Commune tackles the media hysteria over the Jon Venables affair In 1993, two year old James Bulger from Kirkby near Liverpool was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten year olds, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. The horrific case provoked understandable revulsion from the general public. Politicians gleefully seized on it…