Britain's most notorious female paedophile will be released from prison after convincing a parole board she no longer poses a 'significant risk' to children .
Former nursery worker Vanessa George, 49, was locked up for a minimum of seven years in 2009 for a series of sickening sex crimes against small children.
Her imminent release has been discussed for the past few months and late last year it emerged that George had changed her name - to Vanessa Sylvia Marks.
But the parole board has now decided that following a review that she is safe to be freed from jail .
A spokesperson for the Parole Board said: "The Parole Board has directed the release of Vanessa George, following a parole review that was concluded in July 2019.
"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public after release.
"The panel will have carefully looked at a whole range of evidence, including details of the original evidence and any evidence of behaviour change.
"This is done with great care and public safety is the number one priority."
George was given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of seven years. It meant she could only be set free if the parole board considered she is no longer a threat to public safety.
The mother of two described herself to her internet lover Colin Blanchard as a "paedo whore mum".
George worked at Little Teds nursery in Plymouth, Devon, until her arrest on June 9, 2009 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a number of pre-school children in her care.
She was part of a paedophile ring and admitted a total of seven sexual assaults of young children and six counts of distributing and making indecent pictures of children.
During her sentencing at Bristol Crown Court, Mr Justice Royce stressed that while he was passing an indeterminate sentence "it is, in effect, a life sentence".
He said George's "voracious" sexual appetite had "plumbed new depths of depravity".
He added that when Blanchard asked her to take the photos "there should have been a short, robust, Anglo-Saxon answer" to his request.
He said that instead George "chose a darker path. And make no mistake, it was your choice".
