One of UK toddler James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, has been jailed for three years and four months after he pleaded guilty in a London court to having indecent images of children for a second time.
Venables, who was released on licence in 2001 after serving eight years for the murder of two-year-old James, was returned to prison last November after he was caught with the pictures.
He pleaded guilty to having indecent images of children and having a paedophile manual.
James's mother Denise Fergus and father Ralph Bulger were in court to hear the latest guilty pleas.
Venables, and his friend Robert Thompson, tortured and killed James in Liverpool in 1993 when they were both aged ten.
They were granted lifelong anonymity with new identities when they were freed on licence.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey in London, the defendant, referred to as AB, pleaded guilty to four counts.
He admitted having 392 category A images, 148 category B and 630 category C pictures.
He also pleaded guilty to having a paedophile manual on or before 17 November last year.
Venables pleaded guilty at the same court to charges of downloading and distributing child pornography and was jailed for two years.
That was not the only time he had breached the terms of his licence.
In September 2008, he was arrested on suspicion of affray after a drunken brawl and was given a formal warning by the probation service.
Later the same year he was cautioned for possession of cocaine after he was found with a small amount of the class A drug.
Prosecutor Louis Mably QC told the court how Venables' computer was seized in November last year. Officers uncovered images of children mainly aged between six and 13, although some were younger. They also found a paedophile manual.
As he was being taken to a police station, the court heard that Venables admitted he had "let people down".
He said: "This is my own fault. I have let people down again.
"I have had stupid urges, inquisitive. I'm not going to be seeing this for a lot of years.
"It's not going to be a slap on the wrist for me."
Mr Justice Edis said he had received a request to delay sentencing so James' father Ralph Bulger could make a victim impact statement.
But in deciding to sentence straight away, he said: "I know the impact on these two people of what happened when their child was killed.
"I know already how it must be for them when that tragic event is once more brought into the public domain into court and so on because of the offending of one of the killers.
"I do not think there is very much more that can be said to me that I do not already know that could have an effect on the sentencing process."
