BREAKING: James Bulger's killer Jon Venables granted parole hearing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukChild killer Jon Venables has been granted a parole hearing, the Parole Board has confirmed. Venables, who killed James Bulger alongside Robert Thompson in Feburary 1993, has been granted a hearing later this year.
The hearing will take place on November 14 and 15, it is understood. Venables was 10 years old when he and Thompson killed two-year-old James.
The toddler had been abducted from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, before being tortured and murdered. After serving eight years, Venables and Thompson were released in 2001, but Venables has since reoffended four times and returned to prison twice. READ MORE: The Greater Manchester doctor who raped a woman after threatening her with scissors...
and then threatened to release a video of the attack READ MORE: Pub less than hour from Manchester named as the best in Britain A Parole Board spokesperson told PA: “An oral hearing has been listed for the parole review of Jon Venables and is scheduled to take place in November 2023.
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