James Bulger killer's sick list of crimes as lost boy's mum pleads to keep him jail

One of James Bulger’s killers could be days away from freedom - despite having been convicted of a string of sickening crimes since his release.

Jon Venables was just 10 years old when he and his friend, Robert Thompson, tortured and murdered two-year-old James after abducting him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool, in 1993.

After serving eight years, they were released in 2001. While Thompson has stayed out of trouble, Venables has reoffended four times and has returned to prison twice.

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In 2018, he was jailed for 40 months after being was caught with a stash of child sex about images on his computer for a second time.

He now faces a parole hearing within days, The Mirror reports. Amid fears that her son's killer could be released from prison, Jamie's mum Denise Fergus has written to Liz Truss pleading with her to step in to block Venables' bid for freedom.

After being convicted of Jamie's murder in November 1993, Venables was detained indefinitely. He and Thompson spent eight years in a secure juvenile detention unit before being released at 18 with secret identities, without spending any time in an adult prison.

But in September 2008, Venables was arrested on suspicion of affray after a drunken brawl and was given a formal warning by the probation service. Later the same year he was cautioned for possession of cocaine after he was found with a small amount of the class A drug.

In 2010, Venables had his parole revoked and was jailed for two years after admitting downloading images of children being sexually abused. He posed as a 35-year-old married woman called Dawn who abused her eight-year-old