Jon Venables
Acting
Biography
Jon Venables is an English convicted murderer who, at age 10 in 1993, abducted, tortured, and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Merseyside alongside Robert Thompson. Following their conviction, both were detained until 2001, receiving lifelong anonymity. Venables has since been re-imprisoned multiple times for possessing indecent images of children.
Known For
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action
25 years after the verdict in the Jamie Bulger murder trial, we reveal what the jury, public and press never heard, and what his two killers, Thompson and Venables, said during their time in custody from arrest to release.