A number of Twitter users who posted photos claiming to show James Bulger's killer Jon Venables face a possible jail sentence after Britain's chief legal adviser launched contempt proceedings against them.
A number of Twitter users who posted photos claiming to show James Bulger's killer Jon Venables face a possible jail sentence after Britain's chief legal adviser launched contempt proceedings against them.
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In a first-of-its-kind move, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, said court papers will be served against a number of individuals who posted the images on the social network site.
Venables was 10 years old when he and Robert Thompson abducted and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993. The pair were jailed for life but released in 2001 under the protection of a court order banning publication of information which could reveal their new identities.
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