Jon Venables has repeatedly offended since he was convicted in 1993 of the horrific murder of toddler James Bulger in Bootle, Merseyside.
As well as the brutal killing carried out alongside Robert Thompson when both were aged just 10, he has faced further police probes for affray, drug possession and a previous child pornography offence to that for which he was jailed on Wednesday.
Here is a timeline of events following the murder of James Bulger and the conviction of his schoolboy killers:
1993
CCTV showing James Bulger being led away in the New Strand shopping centre in the Bootle area of Liverpool in 1993 (PA)
A policeman stands guard at the entrance of the site where the body of two-year-old James Bulger was found on a railway embankment in Liverpool in 1993 (PA)
A large police contingent moves along an angry crowd which had gathered at South Sefton Magistrates Court where Venables and Thompson appeared in 1993 charged with the murder of James Bulger (John Giles/PA)
An artist’s impression of Venables and Thompson’s trial at Preston Crown Court in 1993 (PA)
1997
1999
2000
James Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, arrives with her husband Stuart (left) at the Law Courts, in London, to hear the Lord Chief Justice’s ruling on the minimum sentences to be served by Thompson and Venables in October 2000, when they were aged 18 (Peter Jordan/PA)
2008
2010
Denise Fergus leaves the Old Bailey, in central London in July 2010, following Jon Venables’s appearance by videolink to enter pleas to charges of downloading and distributing indecent images of children (PA)
