2:21pm Thursday 4th March 2010
By Murray Kelso
THE tragic case of James Bulger has been brought back in to the spotlight this week.
The two-year-old was murdered in February 1993, after being tortured by 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
The boy's body was found on railway lines two days after his abduction from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside.
After their conviction for the horrific killing, Venables and Thompson were released in 2001 under new, undisclosed, identities.
Among the many conditions of their release they were told never to contact one another again and never to return to Merseyside without written permission.
Now Jon Venables is back in jail for 'breaching the terms of his release'.
The vagueness of the term has sparked huge debate and a national newspaper has today printed what it believes to be the reasons behind the 27-year-old's incarceration.
There have even been calls for the reasons to be made public, with some people saying that James's parents deserve to know the truth.
With this in mind we have a question for you, and we'd like to know your opinions.
If we play devil's advocate for a moment, John Venables has been punished to a level deemed suitable by the law of the land. He has served his sentence and been allowed to get on with his life - albeit with limitations.
Do James's parents have the right to know what he's done to be locked up again or is it really none of their concern any more?
Is this just a case of the public's curiosity or does the gravity of the 1993 murder put this in a category of its own?
Please vote in our poll and let us know your thoughts in the comment box, below.
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