British serial killer serves fiftieth Christmas behind bars
- Robert Mawdsley, 70, was simply 21 when he was locked up for homicide in 1974
A British serial killer has served his fiftieth Christmas behind bars after spending extra time in solitary confinement than some other felony on the earth.
Notorious killer Robert Mawdsley, 70, has now spent 50 years in a jail cell, with 45 of those in solitude, which is regarded as a world report, in response to The Mirror.
The felony, nicknamed ‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ following false stories he ate certainly one of his sufferer’s brains, was simply 21 when he was locked up for the homicide of 30-year-old John Farrell in 1974.
Just 4 years later he was put into solitary confinement after killing three individuals inside a jail.
He now lives out his days in a 18 foot by 15 foot cell, which was constructed particularly for him in 1983 and is protected by bullet proof glass.
Robert Mawdsley, 70, has now spent a report of fifty years behind bars, with 45 of those spent in solitude
The ‘hannibal’ assassin has been locked up in HMP Wakefield, the place he killed three of his victims while behind bars
Mawdsley was dominated unfit for trial after murdering Farrell, who was reportedly a baby intercourse offender.
He was despatched to Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire in 1977, the place he took a fellow inmate hostage earlier than stabbing him to dying with a plastic spoon.
Rumours unfold that Mawdsley had eaten a few of his mind after the sufferer was discovered with the spoon in his ear.
Mawdsley was then despatched to Wakefield jail in West Yorkshire the place he murdered one other two inmates, which landed him in solitary confinement in 1978.
In a Channel 5 documentary HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars, Maudsley’s nephew Gavin from Liverpool revealed how his softly spoken, ‘well-read’ uncle is content material to be locked away from the remainder of the world.
He added: ‘[If you] put him with rapists and paedophiles, I do know as a result of he instructed us, he’s going to kill as many paedophiles as he can. I’m not condoning what he did, however…the individuals he killed had been actually unhealthy individuals.’
Mawdsley beforehand mentioned he’s ‘completely satisfied and content material in solitary’ but in addition as soon as described spending nearly all of his day in his small area as ‘like being buried alive in a coffin’.
He has been repeatedly turned down for requests to spend time with different individuals, spending his days in a specifically constructed cell.
Mawdsley (pictured) was dominated unfit for trial after murdering Farrell, who was reportedly a baby intercourse offender
He has been categorised because the UK’s most harmful assassin and spends his days at HMP Wakefield (pictured)
In 2021, he misplaced an attraction to spend Christmas with different individuals and was instructed that he will probably be incarcerated in his ‘glass field’ till he dies. He additionally has a desk and chair manufactured from compressed cardboard.
The killer wrote to newspapers campaigning for higher therapy within the early days of his confinement.
In 2000, Maudsley launched a authorized bid to the courts requesting to be allowed to die.
He wrote a letter asking: ‘What objective is served by conserving me locked up 23 hours a day? Why even trouble to feed me and to offer me one hour’s train a day? Who truly am I a danger to?’
He went on to query why he could not have a pet budgie, promising to like it and ‘not eat it.’
Mawdsley is believed to be Britain’s longest serving prisoner after Moors assassin Ian Brady, who served 51 years. He died in 2017.
US prisoner Albert Woodfox, who died final 12 months, held the world report for solitary confinement at 43 years, earlier than his launch in 2016.
A spokesman for The Ministry of Justice instructed The Mirror there was ‘no such factor as solitary confinement in our jail system’.
They added: ‘Some offenders will probably be segregated in the event that they pose a danger to others. They are allowed time within the open air each day, visits, telephone calls, and entry to authorized recommendation and medical care like everybody else.’
