In a few months Darren Vickers - who committed one of the most chilling child murders Greater Manchester has seen - will be considered for release from his life sentence, the M.E.N. can reveal.
Now 56, the monster has already served his minimum 25 year period behind bars and he could be released as early as February.
He is behind bars for the May 1997 abduction and murder of eight-year-old Jamie Lavis, a schoolboy from Openshaw who he groomed and snatched after he boarded the bus he was driving.
