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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ben Griffiths & Abigail Nicholson

Jon Venables' parole hearing pushed back again

Jon Venables has had his hopes of Christmas freedom dashed after a parole hearing was ditched until the new year.

The 40-year-old, who abducted and brutally murdered James Bulger in 1993, was set for a board showdown this month. But turmoil in Westminster has led to it being delayed by at least three months.

The decision was welcomed by the two-year-old’s mum Denise Fergus, reports the Mirror.

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