One of the men who killed a British toddler 18 years ago when he was only 10 years old and is currently serving a two-year sentence for child porn has lost his bid for parole because he is still deemed a risk to the public, according to reports.
In 1993, Jon Venables and another boy abducted James Bulger, 2, from a U.K. shopping mall. Bulger's mutilated body was found on train tracks two days later.
Venables, 28, and Robert Thompson received life sentences in November 1993 for Bulger's murder. In 2001, they were released from prison and given new identities.
Last July, Venables pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and was sentenced to two years in prison.
He had applied for a release halfway through his sentence, but that parole bid was denied, U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
A panel of three parole board officials rejected Venables's application after deciding he still poses a risk to the public, the newspaper reported.
Venables will remain in prison to serve the rest of the life sentence he received in 1993.
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