Jon Venebles (R) has lost his bid for freedom after being jailed for possession on child abuse images (Picture: PA)

James Bulger’s evil killer Jon Venables will stay in prison after his bid for parole was rejected.

Venebles faced an appeal to determine if he could be released from jail after he was imprisoned for possessing images of child abuse.

But the Parole Board rejected his bid, with the panel ruling that it was ‘not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public’.

Now 41, Venebles and pal Robert Thompson shocked the nation in 1993 when they adbucted, tortured and murdered two-year-old James when they were just ten years old.

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