James Bulger killer Jon Venables could be free from prison after becoming eligible to apply for parole . Venables, who kidnapped and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, was 10 years old when he, along with Robert Thompson, tortured the innocent toddler before abandoning his lifeless body on railway tracks in Walton .

Venables was released from prison under a new identity in 2001. But in March 2010, he was recalled after downloading and distributing more than 100 images of child abuse, The Liverpool ECHO reports.

He was jailed for two years, before being granted parole again in July 2013.

In November 2017 he was arrested and recalled to jail on suspicion of possession of images of child sex abuse. It emerged that police had found a laptop, stashed behind the committed paedop

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