London - One of two men convicted as children of killing two-year old James Bulger 17 years ago admitted charges of downloading and distributing indecent images of children at a court on Friday.
Jon Venables, aged 27, pleaded guilty to three charges at London's Old Bailey and appeared by video link from prison, the Press Association reported.
The first offence involved downloading 57 pornographic pictures of children onto his computer between February 2009 and February 2010.
The second involved distributing indecent photographs in February this year, while the third related to distributing 42 images in February 2008.
Venables and his friend Robert Thompson killed James Bulger in 1993 when they were 10 years old. They abducted him from a shopping centre in Liverpool before torturing and killing him.
The murder shocked Britain and was widely reported around the world. A security camera picture showing the killers leading the toddler away from the shopping centre became a haunting image of the case.
Venables and Thompson were given life sentences but were released on licence in 2001 after being given new identities which were protected from being made public. - Reuters