The decision not to lift Jon Venables’ anonymity order shows judges will not give in to the internet

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Jon Venables and Robert Thompson murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993

It should really come as no surprise at all that the family court on Monday ruled against varying the injunction that prevents the new identity of Jon Venables from being made public.

Venables was 10-years-old when he and Robert Thompson murdered the toddler James Bulger.

The sadistic killing in 1993 left the two-year-old’s family devastated and caused widespread revulsion, with Thompson and Venables becoming the youngest people to be convicted of murder in England in modern times.