Mary Bell
Anonymity
Child Killer Granted Lifelong Anonymity
On
Following a High Court decision, the identities of
Interviewed outside the court following the decision, the sister of Martin Brown, one of
Martin's mother June Richardson, interviewed by the BBC in April said: “The best that could happen would be for her to remain anonymous and just vanish and we can get on with our lives.”
BBC’s Andy Tighe reported that Judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, had “stressed the case was ‘exceptional’ and it did not mean that a blanket of anonymity would be granted in all cases of this kind.”
The BBC report further stated that the main issue the court had to decide was “whether
Defending her decision, Judge Butler-Sloss said that she had granted the injunctions for different reasons from a similar decision she made in the case of child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the killers of James Bulger.
Danny Shaw, the BBC’s home affairs correspondent wrote that the Judges decision had been expected and added, “if the High Court had decided not to grant
- Brian Howe
- Suspicious Behavior
- Closing In
- Mary's Statement
- Warning Signs
- Martin Brown
- Murderous Messages
- Mary's Notebook
- Caught
- The Trial Begins
- The Girls Testify
- Between Friends
- The Verdict
- Incarceration
- Prison
- Free at 23
- Making Mary Bell
- "Accidental" Overdoses
- Psychological Portrait
- Manipulative
- Cries Unheard
- Anonymity
- Photo Gallery
- Bibliography
