VILE paedophile Colin Blanchard is set to spend "two more years behind bars", insiders say.
The sex monster went before a Parole Board meeting last month to beg for his freedom - telling bosses he’d wear an electronic tag and undergo regular lie detector tests to curb his movements.
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Child abuse ringleader Colin Blanchard's parole plea has been adjourned 2
His accomplice Vanessa George was freed in 2019 after serving ten years Credit: Handout
But the hearing overran because of the weight of information on the disturbing case and was adjourned to a date to be set over the next few weeks.
Now we can reveal that sources believe Blanchard, 51, will not be granted freedom once the reconvened hearing is concluded.
Offenders can only appear before a Parole Board every two years.
Our source claimed: “Blanchard has got no chance of freedom. And of debate. He will spend two more years banged up before his next shot at freedom.
“This is first Parole Board hearing but he’s likely to have to appear at a couple more before he’s deemed ready for release.
“The bottom line is that his offences are just too serious for him to be granted parole at the first attempt.
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“His release into the community would be managed by dozens of limitations like lie detector tests and a tag but even so, Blanchard would remain a danger to the community.”
A spokesman for the Parole Board confirmed that a date for the adjourned hearing would be set in due course.
Blanchard - the ringleader of a paedophile gang who convinced a nursery worker to abuse tots in her care – was referred to the Parole Board for potential release in 2020 after serving his minimum nine years in prison for running “one of the most sickening paedophile rings this country has seen”.
But parole chiefs deemed him not ready for freedom without even holding a hearing and instead they ordered that Blanchard must complete another course in jail designed to prevent re-offending and then he must be reviewed by a psychologist before they could set a date to consider his status.
The Ministry of Justice referred his case to the Parole Board after he had completed his minimum sentence.
His co-accused - nursery worker Vanessa George - is back on the streets after serving just ten years in prison for abusing 64 babies and sharing the sickening videos with Blanchard.
Her release sparked fury after it emerged she has been given a cushy flat in the Midlands at the expense of the taxpayer.
George earned the grisly title of Britain’s worst female paedo in 2009 after she was caged for taking the sick pictures of herself harming babies and toddlers.
The fiend cruelly refused to tell police the names of all of her victims – leading to a decade of “hell” for families who still aren’t sure whether their child was abused.
Special needs coordinator George took pictures on her phone of her abusing babies and toddlers at a nursery in Plymouth.
Her trial heard she sent pictures to paedophile Blanchard after meeting him on Facebook.
Blanchard, of Rochdale, was said to be the “hub of the paedophile wheel”.
He traded the photos to members of a paedophile ring, including prostitute Angela Allen, of Nottingham, who was jailed for at least five years.
Mum-of-two George, whose two daughters have publicly disowned her, described herself to lover Blanchard as a “paedo whore mum” in vile exchanges between the two.
Tracey Lyons, who was jailed in 2011 for sending sickening child abuse pictures to Blanchard, has now been released from prison.
Tracy Dawber, who was in a year-long relationship with him, was caged for four years for abusing a two-year-old boy and letting Blanchard film it.
The Sun has approached the Parole Board for comment.