... not be considered for parole until they had served at least 15 years. The pair would be detained at secure care homes and a youth offenders home until they were 18 then be moved to an adult prison to serve the rest of their sentence. At the time this seemed like the right sentence to give for such a horrendous crime, but even at the time there was much controversy. The pair were trailed as adults and not as children, this was for the reason that they were over 10 years old and so would have reasonable idea of what they were doing and the difference between right and wrong. In the year 2000 one of Britains top judges lord Woolf ruled that Thompson and Venables be considered for immediate parole. This meant that the pair would have served 7 years in a care home where they were cared for ...

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