Why did the UK government pay £4 million to protect two child killers?

Question

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, yes the two who tortured to death a two year old boy, beating him to the floor with iron bars and bricks as the helpless toddler cried for his mother, than tieing the body to railway tracks for a train to later slice through it. The two ten year olds served eight years and were given new Identities when they were released in 2001. £4million on their safety and well-being, is that what we have to do to get the goverment to spend money on us, murder helpless babies?

Answer 1

People mistakenly assume that children that young couldn't have known what they were doing.

Answer 2

We have the same problem here in the US.  I don't think that anyone that commits murder or molests a child should be free, I think they should get the death penalty.

Answer 3

I find it absolutely despicable. Those two monsters should of never been released, nor given new Identities. It is poor Denise who has served the life sentence, by not having little James with her.