Reports are coming in that convicted baby killer Jon Venables is not feeling very well as he languishes in a prison where most people just want to do him harm.
Venables was taken into custody for breach of his terms of release amid widespread rumours that he'd been up to something that he shouldn't have been up to.
We can't reveal exactly what he was up to, nor can we reveal what we think it is he might have been up to, or even what other publications with more legal resources than we can muster have reported that he's been up to.
But we can report that Venables is reportedly deeply upset and depressed because virtually everybody in the country thinks he'd be better off dead. We can't say whether or not we'd like him dead because it's not our place to do so, and whatever we said one way or the other could be described as inflammatory by our detractors - of which there are many.
One thing which other commentators and ourselves are within our rights to ask though, is how come Jon Venables is so surprised that he should become one of the most detested individuals in years?
Surely Venables' 8 years in juvenile custody and the help of a battery of support and psychiatric professionals must have gone some way in preparing him for the knowledge that the great British public are loath to embrace child killers to their collective bosom?
Jon Venables should know that he'll never exactly be regarded with the affection reserved for national treasures. Maybe we should sympathise with this man...or maybe we should tell him something else altogether.
Something more...shall we say...sinister?
More as we get it.
