‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ Maudsley needs to be taken out of glass dungeon
A jail officer has revealed why he believes serial killer Robert Maudsley needs to be taken out of solitary confinement.
Maudsley, extra famously generally known as Hannibal the Cannibal, is the longest-serving inmate within the UK penal system.
The assassin, from Liverpool, has now spent fiftieth consecutive Christmas behind bars for his crimes.
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The 70-year-old was locked up for homicide in 1974, aged 21. Since then, he has been stored other than different prisoners for 45 years after killing three different inmates.
Maudsley had particular provisions made for him at Wakefield Prison, together with being stored in a glass dungeon.
The tornado killer is stored within the underground field, measuring 18ft by 14ft for 23 hours a day within the basement.
Neil Samworth, who served at HMP Strangeways in Manchester for greater than a decade, has now come ahead to argue Maudsley needs to be taken out of the bulletproof glass cell, as reported by the Daily Mail.
Mr Samworth, who’s now retired after a profession “surrounded” by murderers, stated: “I think it’s wrong the way he has been treated. He is in total isolation and is not fair.
“I think his crimes are historic now and he represents no real danger to others. It’s a bit like Charlie Bronson. Yes, he has had lots of fights in the past but he is an old man now.’
The violent prisoner has only been pictured once since his incarceration after being filmed for a documentary on him more than 40 years ago. When he leaves his specially-made cell, Maudlsey is guarded by four officers.
Maudsley has long urged the prison authorities to move him into better conditions.
In letters greater than 20 years in the past, he penned: “The prison authorities see me as a problem, and their solution has been to put me into solitary confinement and throw away the key, to bury me alive in a concrete coffin.
“It doesn’t matter to them whether or not I’m mad or dangerous. They have no idea the reply and they don’t care simply as long as I’m stored out of sight and out of thoughts.
“I am left to stagnate, vegetate and to regress; left to confront my solitary head-on with people who have eyes but don’t see and who have ears but don’t hear, who have mouths but don’t speak.
“My life in solitary is one lengthy interval of unbroken melancholy.”
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