Child killer Jon Venables is to get a new secret name, because of a serious security breach which has revealed details of his current identity. Details of the breach cannot be revealed for legal reasons.
But it means that he will have to learn another fake background and be given a new set of documents, including a passport and birth certificate.
He will not be able to return to the town where he was living when he is released from his latest prison sentence.
Venables was given a first new identity in 2001 when he was freed from his life sentence, along with Robert Thompson, for the murder in Liverpool of toddler James Bulger.
The two killers were granted lifelong anonymity around their new identities, such was the concern that they would be attacked.
When Venables, 28, was jailed again last year for internet child sex abuse crimes it emerged that he had been telling some people who he really was. Read More
