The schoolgirl was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in the head, neck, chest and back after being lured to Linear Park, Culcheth, a village near Warrington, Cheshire.
Despite vowing to prison staff that he would fight the parole rejection, Venables 41, who killed toddler James Bulger in 1993, missed this week’s appeal deadline
One neighbour said: It was the other way around. Thompson wasn t that bad a kid when I knew him. Thompson s childhood friend said: He was neglected. his mother was a drinker.
Venables was one of two boys who murdered James Bulger in 1993 and since then he's been returned to prison twice for possessing indecent images of children.
In February 1993, the toddler was snatched from his mother at New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside, by Jon Venables (pictured) and Robert Thompson.