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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

James Bulger killer Jon Venables to remain behind bars after bid for freedom rejected

The Independent

Child killer Jon Venables has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail, with the panel ruling that it was “not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public”.

Venables, who was just 10 when he brutally tortured and killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, will now spend at least another two years in prison.

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