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Britain's most notorious female paedophile Vanessa George is to be released from prison.

The self-styled "paedo mum" used her "dirty phone" to film herself sexually abusing babies and toddlers at a nursery before sharing them with her pervert lover.

The married mum, from Plymouth, Devon, was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 following the attacks at the Little Teds nursery.

She is believed to have abused up to 64 children, with ages ranging from 2 to 5 years old.

However, a Parole Board was satisfied that in the space of nine years since her conviction, the 48 year-old no longer posed a risk to the public.

A Parole Board spokesman said today: "The Parole Board has directed the release of Vanessa George, following a parole review that was concluded in July 2019.

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"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.

She is currently being held at HMP Send near Guildford, Surrey, as she awaits the decision to release her.

The decision to release her, confirmed by the Parole Board, followed an earlier adjournment in May after board members were believed to have sought greater safety guarantees relating to her monitoring during freedom.

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She previously had parole turned down on several occasions.

Her release was also delayed following public uproar over a decision, later reversed, to release black cab rapist John Warboys from jail.

There was also the granting of freedom to road rage killer and serial crook, Kenneth Noye.

George, publicly disowned by her two daughters, was divorced by her husband Andrew while in jail and she has since reverted to her maiden name Vanessa Sylvia Marks.

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Neither Andrew or the girls knew of her secret sordid life in which she turned from an angel at the nursery, trusted by parents to look after their little children, into a monster abusing them.

Protests over her freedom were led last night by Andrew, who fears his ex spouse will have 'manipulated' parole board members, and that she still poses a risk on the outside.

Andrew, aged 51 years, insists he is a 'broken man' claiming he will bear the mental scars of her crimes for the rest of his life.

"I am staggered," he said.

"I just don't know what to say."

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Following her arrest in 2009, police insisted that her family knew nothing of double life as an abuser at Little Ted's Nursery in Efford, Plymouth, which was forced to close after the scandal was revealed.

While sending indecent pictures of her abusing the children to a five strong gang of paedophiles, including 'Svengali' Colin Blanchard, she boasted of being a 'paedo wh*** mum."

Forced by debts to sell the marital home and suffering from a re-occurence of skin cancer, jobless Andrew believes that the Parole Board must now fully explain why it thinks his ex has now changed her ways.

He said: "Vanessa is manipulative and she's like the leopard which never changes its spots. She should have stayed locked-up."