- James Bulger's killer Jon Venables will remain in prison after telling a Parole Board panel that he was not seeking release.
- Venables submitted an opening statement accepting the need to undertake further offending work in custody before any potential release.
- The decision to keep him in prison was supported by probation officers, psychologists, and a psychiatrist.
- Venables was originally jailed for the 1993 murder of two-year-old James, released in 2001, and re-imprisoned in 2010 and 2017 for possessing indecent images of children.
- This latest decision follows a previous unsuccessful parole bid in 2020.
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