“Child killer Jon Venables,” reported the Mirror a few days ago, “has turned to religion – and claims God will forgive him for his crimes. Prison sources said he had asked for a Roman Catholic priest to visit him in his cell and spent three hours talking to him. Since then he has made a crucifix out of string and has been given a set of plastic rosary beads”.
Prison officers are sceptical. “It’s a well-trodden path for sick killers like Venables to find God,” said a prison source. “They think that whatever they did in the past will be forgotten because they have suddenly become religious.”
