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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mathilde Grandjean

James Bulger’s father calls private parole hearing for killer an ‘insult’

The father of James Bulger has said the decision to hold his killer’s parole hearing in private is “an insult” and like trampling over the toddler’s grave, The Sun on Sunday has reported.

Child killer Jon Venables, who tortured and murdered two-year-old James in 1993, will have his bid for freedom heard by parole chiefs at an oral hearing more than two years after his last appeal.

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