Vanessa George, 47, was jailed in 2009 for molesting and photographing up to 64 children while on duty at a Plymouth nursery
Britain’s worst female paedophile hopes to be out of prison by Christmas after lodging a new application for her release with the Parole Board.
Vanessa George, 47, was jailed in 2009 for molesting and photographing up to 64 children while on duty at a Plymouth nursery. She tried to walk free in 2016 after serving her minimum sentence of seven years but had her appeal turned down.
Now the mother-of-two’s legal team have lodged a new appeal with parole officials, who must decide if she still poses a danger of the public.
A decision is expected in November, raising the possibility she could be out by Christmas, reported The Sun.
George, who is at Bronzefield women’s prison in Ashford, was given an indeterminate sentence, like that given to black cab rapist John Warboys.
The qualified special needs coordinator sexually assaulted babies and children aged around two at Little Ted’s Nursery, photographed the abuse, and sent the images to Facebook friend Colin Blanchard.
George was obsessed with the IT salesman, telling him she was his ‘paedo whore mumma’, and sending him eight pictures a day while on duty in an attempt to get him to propose to her. Blanchard also received an indeterminate sentence.
Now the mother-of-two’s (pictured) legal team have lodged a new appeal with parole officials, who must decide if she still poses a danger of the public
When George had her last parole hearing, parents of the children who attended the nursery where she worked warned of the fear they had they would see her.
Her ex-husband Andrew George, who divorced his wife following the scandal, has begged the parole board not to free her.
Mr George said she never fully revealed the scale of her sex attacks on babies and toddlers in her care, or apologised to him and their daughters for the disgrace and embarrassment she caused them.
Judge Mr Justice Royce said at her sentencing: ‘Parents have to live with the memory of you coming out with a smile on your face to hand them back their child.
‘In fact you may have been doing unspeakable things to that child. Many of the parents still have to live with that uncertainty and distress.’
A spokesman for abuse victims’ support group Survivors Matter said: ‘The law states that a person must be rehabilitated before they are released. We argue that what is broken with Vanessa cannot be fixed in a seven-year period.’
George on the phone to her lawyer while in custody in Plymouth before her trial in 2009