What really happened to the Bulger killers

At last, after years of hysterical, inaccurate and vengeful nonsense in the tabloids about the killers of James Bulger, the Sunday Times magazine carries a measured and factual article about the two boys, who are now men aged 23. David James Smith explores in great detail how Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were rehabilitated in order to return to society eight years after the barbaric slaughter of a two-year-old boy. With new identities, they have since led "quiet, settled lives" but are still plagued by "phoney" newspaper stories. (Via timesonline.co.uk)