Bulger killers.

[betterman]

with the anonymity issues regarding venables and thompson, do you think the media has pictures of these two, i mean recent pictures? and how recent?

[ummmm]

I would say so. I think the media have always known where they are. They have just been blocked from reporting it though.

[jno]

my guess is not, given the court orders in place; but who knows, media are not noted for being law-abiding.

[Seadragon]

I think the media would have an injunction posed from issuing any pictures even if they did have any.

[Seadragon]

'printing' - sorry.

[bazwillrun]

"D" notice
guaranteed they know

[Davethedog]

D-Notices and DA-notices are merely a request and therefore not legally

[ummmm]

Whats a 'D' notice...and what's a 'DA' notice...please?

[R1Geezer]

If they had pictures they'd use them, they never be able to resist!

[jacey]

couldn't they be "misplaced" and printed by a foreign newspaper????

[rov1200]

There have been so many pictures of Venables printed when he was a youth. Why they do this when its now possible to change the same image into an older person and how they would look now; See

http://www.aprilage.com/

[B00]

I don't understand this fascination in knowing what they're called now or what they look like. If you/we had this information, this would be of help....why exactly?

[bobjugs12]

The media does not have to follow D-notices, but they do need to follow court injunctions. The other thing is breaking a D Notice is a very bad thing because it creates a lot of bad blood between a media outlet and the government (think Prince Harry in Afghanistan).

The media will know who they are, what they look like and where they live. All they're waiting for now is some foreign outlet to release the details so they can legally claim "It wasn't us guv"

[bazwillrun]

I know all about D notices I worked for the Mirror Group for nearly 12 years.
Its the phone call that accompanies the "D" notice and who makes it (someone in a grey suit usually) that carries the clout.

[standian]

I agree BOO.

And I also don't understand why Denise Fergus thinks that she has a right to know this information. I can't pretend to understand her grief and how she must be feeling now this has all come up again, but I don't see why she has any sort of right to the information - no other previous victim of an offender does.

[Seadragon]

I agree with you as well BOO.

[TCL-MUMPING]

The original D-Notices were defence notices issued to newspapers asking them not to publish sensitive information and were introduced before the First World War. They are now called DA or Defence Advisory Notices.