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Many regard him as a major poet, but Mr Venables said Gurney thought of himself "as a composer first and poet second".
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Whatever the facts in the case of Mr Venables, that is worrying.
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Mr Venables has returned into public consciousness just as New Labour seems set to lose office, an eerie bookend to its political supremacy.
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Sober reflection suggests that living as he does under an assumed identity, with the fear of discovery as well, presumably, as crushing guilt Mr Venables's situation, like his crime, is too freakishly unusual to help in reaching broader judgments.
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Mr Kirby said housing Venables in Cheshire had "put him too close to temptation".
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Mr Lee added that the "pressures" on Venables "must have been enormous".
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Venables accepted a prison sentence was justified, Mr Gibson said, and that his release at the end of it was not a formality.
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However, Mr Straw did reveal in a statement on Saturday that the allegations against Venables were "extremely serious".
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