MPs have renewed calls for a public inquiry into why murderer Jon Venables was freed from prison
The Government must lay out all the facts of the case of murdered toddler James Bulger in a public inquiry to show there is nothing to hide, ministers today heard.
The petition calls for questions to be asked about murderer Venables' time in the prison system, and why experts believed he had been rehabilitated when he was released. Speaking in Westminster Hall on Monday, Ms Barker, the MP for Liverpool, Wavertree, said: "I find it staggering to assert by denying a public inquiry that lessons cannot be learned.
Labour former minister Sir George Howarth said the Government's response on how the transparency of the Parole Board's decisions could be improved has been "overly defensive and vague". He was once again freed in August 2013 and then called back in November 2017 for the same offence and was jailed for three years and four months.
She said: "Each and every time the state does not live by an obligation that it had previously promised that victim, it's just another bit of erosion to believe that the case had been handled well in the first place.
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