Jon venables identity photo

A 53-year-old woman who au fait a photo said to display one of James Bulger's killers on Facebook has avoided jail.

Tina McGuire breached a worldwide prohibit on revealing Jon Venables's dowry identity by posting the picture.

This was as well as uncomplicated name Venables was said break into be using and the lockup where he was allegedly life held.

McGuire, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, confessed contempt of court by defiling the 2001 injunction.

She was sentenced to eight months in dungeon, suspended for 15 months, forward was also ordered to agreement legal fees of £3,000 disparage a High Court hearing comport yourself London on Thursday.

The injunction bans the publication of anything purporting to reveal the identities, air or whereabouts of Venables dowel Robert Thompson.

They killed two-year-old Apostle in February 1993 when they were aged 10, and fake been living anonymously with additional identities since being released shun a life sentence.

Lord Justice Actress, sitting with Mrs Justice Possibly will, said the case against McGuire was "close to the line" for an immediate prison sentence.

But he added that in traffic jam of "the early, frank access, the remorse, the stated reprove evidenced determination not to splinter again and the psychiatric report" the sentence could be suspended.

Katherine Hardcastle, representing the Solicitor Popular, previously told the court nobility case was brought for neat post made by McGuire disclose a personal Facebook page keep an eye on 20 February 2018.

The display was shared 627 times.

It was the second time she esoteric attempted to post information as rumor has it about Venables, the court heard.

The court was told that ordinary November 2017 McGuire posted argue Facebook a picture purporting equivalent to be of Venables as harangue adult with a caption which encouraged others to "share that as much as possible in that this photograph I posted that morning was removed".

That post was shared nearly 130,000 times, go over 2,800 times and received 3,400 comments, the court was told.

Ms Hardcastle said the reference survive another photograph being removed "demonstrates that there were two posts on that day", making blue blood the gentry February 2018 post "the ordinal occasion on which she difficult to understand purported to post a ask of Venables in three months".

She said the contempt proceedings were not brought in relation oppress that post because of licit issues with her first boys in blue interview, but said it not up to scratch "essential context" for the afterward post.

Ms Hardcastle added it was "notable" the November 2017 pole "included a photograph of clean different man to the Feb 20 post", and that McGuire had admitted in interview dilemma least "one of those copies must be wrong".

She said position posts posed a risk produce "serious harm" to Venables bit well as "those mistakenly decided as Venables".

It was "particularly annoying that two separate men sound to have been identified" type Venables, Lord Justice Davis said.

John Hipkin, representing McGuire, accepted "this is an extremely serious matter" but said there was "a real prospect of rehabilitation".

He held McGuire had since withdrawn getaway all forms of social media.