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Child killer Jon Venables’ latest parole bid for freedom will be held privately despite a plea from James Bulger’s mother to make it public.
The 44-year-old, who tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, will have his case heard by parole chiefs at an oral hearing more than two years after his last appeal.
James’s mother, Denise Fergus, demanded that the hearing be held in public to help combat ‘misinformation’ about the case, which had a ‘retraumatising impact’ on her.
Parole Board hearings are usually held in private, but they can be made public ‘in the interests of justice’.
A number of media organisations also applied for a public hearing.
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