Prison psychiatrist says serial killer Maudsley must be freed
A jail psychiatrist who labored with the UK’s most harmful prisoners has claimed that serial killer Robert Maudsley must be freed.
Dr Bob Johnson, who believes essentially the most violent inmates are a hazard to society due to previous trauma, says Maudsley must be given a job so he pays the households of his victims compensation as an alternative of being locked up.
Maudsley has been in solitary confinement in a specially-built glass cell since 1983 after killing three folks in jail whereas serving a life sentence for homicide.
The twisted killer, who was given the nickname ‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ following false reviews that he ate certainly one of his victims’ brains, is stored within the underground field, measuring 18ft by 14ft, for 23 hours a day, within the basement of Wakefield Prison.
He is guarded by 4 jail officers each time he leaves his cell and holds the world file for many consecutive days in solitary.
Dr Bob Johnson believes essentially the most violent prisoners are a hazard to society due to previous trauma
Robert Maudsley (pictured), 70, is being held in a non-public underground cell beneath the overall inhabitants of HMP Wakefield, after killing 4 males between 1974 and 1978
Maudsley (pictured) was final pictured greater than 40 years in the past for a documentary on his life in jail
Despite Maudsley beforehand telling his nephew he would kill once more if launched, Dr Johnson mentioned it’s ‘ridiculous’ that the ‘very clever’ Maudsley is locked up and added that he must be freed so he pays the households of his sufferer’s compensation.
He instructed true crime YouTuber Shaun Attwood: ‘Robert Maudsley is a very cultured man, he likes Shubert like I do.
He’s a really clever man.
‘One of the things I say about Maudsley is, “you have murdered somebody, you must pay”.
‘But I would employ Maudsley with a very high salary, because he’s bought an excellent mind, and he ought to pay £10,000 a yr to every household he has disadvantaged a member of.
‘Not lock him up at the costing the state £500k a year, it’s ludicrous, he must pay compensation for what he’s carried out.
‘I’m positive if I’d been in a position to proceed, he would have carried out that.’
Dr Johnson first met Maudsley in HMP Parkhurst in 1991 when the serial killer was within the hospital wing of the infamous jail.
He mentioned of the assembly: ‘I noticed him on my first journey round, he was in a single cell and he was gaunt, a Moses sort look. Long hair and depressing as sin.
‘At that point, he was in all probability essentially the most harmful prisoner within the jail system. He was a serial killer and had been a serial killer and killed I believe 4 occasions in jail.
‘I famous him, when he was in Parkhurst in 1991, however he was on the hospital wing.
‘I’m passing by way of the hospital and he’s bought these wire mesh issues [in front of him] and we begin chatting and he mentioned, “if I had a friend who had this sort of problem, what would you do?”
‘I said “I would talk to your friend, would you be interested?
‘He said, “my friend might be interested, this sort of thing”.’
After the initial meeting, Dr Johnson got permission to interview and treat Maudsley with therapy.
The psychiatrist explained how Maudsley was making ‘sterling progress’.
He said: ‘The prison cell was 10ft by 6ft, I sat on the end of the bed by the door and he’s at that end.
Dr Johnson treated Maudsley in the 1990s and believes he should be freed and given a job so he pay the families of his victims compensation
Dr Bob Johnson made the comments on true crime youtuber Shaun Attwood’s (pictured) show during an appearance alongside his wife Sue Johnson
Dr Johnson appeared on the youtube show alongside his wife Sue Johnson (pictured)
‘He said “my hands are getting sweaty”, then I mentioned, “in case you frighten me, I can’t aid you”… so he calmed down.
‘He was making sterling progress, we were making incredible progress, we were unpacking his appalling childhood.
‘He used to get very agitated and used to say, “I’ve bought a protector and he’s coming in”, so I’d say back off, but did so gently, and I’d say “would you like me to come back again once more?”.
‘We did monthly [sessions] at first and then we did gradually more. He eventually said, “I see these things quite differently from a month ago”.’
Dr Johnson believes essentially the most violent prisoners had been born ‘lovable’ earlier than they suffered horrific trauma at a younger age and that they are often cured with the fitting therapy.
He mentioned: ‘These psychopaths, so-called, had all been born lovable, sociable and non-violent and one thing, which they could not let you know, had gone fallacious, and finally they may let you know.’
The psychiatrist defined his strategies: ‘What occurs is, they put their trauma in a field and they’re the one individuals who can open the field. If they open the field prematurely, that is the top of them – they’re useless.
‘So, they do not open the field. My message to them is, “the box is empty you know”.
‘If you may open the field and blow it away, it goes away fully however there are a complete lot of stuff that occurs in between.’
Maudsley’s brother Kevin beforehand instructed MailOnline that the killer is ‘blissful’ behind bars and can by no means apologise for his crimes as a result of ‘they had been all paedophiles’.
He added: ‘The visits give him one thing to reside for. He’s simply used to it.’
Maudsley, seen as a baby, is serving 4 life sentences in his glass cell which measures 18ft by 14ft
Dr Johnson believes the trauma of essentially the most violent offenders will be cured with the fitting sort of remedy
Kevin, 71, visits his brother as soon as a month and sits in an adjoining cell, speaking by way of steel bars.
He mentioned: ‘He’s settled in – he would not need to transfer. He’d relatively be on his personal than within the regular jail. He simply likes it.
‘I’ve visits. He’s in a single and we’re in one other, with bars. He appears blissful sufficient in there.
‘He appears alright, we now have an excellent chortle. We simply discuss issues like exterior – what’s it like, what is going on on, issues like that.’
The violent prisoner has solely been pictured as soon as since his incarceration after being filmed for a documentary on him greater than 40 years in the past.
His brother’s feedback are in stark distinction to the battle the inmate has waged in opposition to the jail authorities in an effort to maneuver him into higher situations.
In letters greater than 20 years in the past, he wrote: ‘The jail authorities see me as an issue, and their answer has been to place me into solitary confinement and throw away the important thing, to bury me alive in a concrete coffin.
‘It doesn’t matter to them whether or not I’m mad or unhealthy. 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’m left to stagnate, vegetate and to regress; left to confront my solitary head-on with individuals who have eyes however do not see and who’ve ears however do not hear, who’ve mouths however do not communicate.
‘My life in solitary is one lengthy interval of unbroken despair.’
In 2021, he misplaced an enchantment to spend Christmas with different folks and was instructed that he can be incarcerated in his cell till he dies.
A yr later, a Channel 5 documentary revealed the serial killer had instructed his nephew he vowed to kill once more if he was launched.
Maudsley’s (pictured) brother Paul mentioned he was ‘blissful’ residing in his glass cell beneath HMP Wakefield
At HMP Wakefield two weeks in the past, paedophile assassin Roy Whiting, 65, was stabbed by one other prisoner
Maudsley’s nephew Gavin (pictured) instructed a documentary that he typically visits the killer at Wakefield jail
Maudsley’s two-room cell is constructed from Perspex and has compressed cardboard furnishings.
The sadistic killer spends daily within the Hannibal Lecter-style cell, sleeping on a concrete slab and utilizing a bathroom and sink that are bolted to the ground.
Like his namesake, within the 1991 Hollywood blockbuster Silence of the Lambs, guards who’ve met Maudsley describe him as exceptionally clever, with a love of classical music, poetry and artwork.
Kevin, who’s the one particular person to go to Maudsley alongside mentioned his brother Paul and nephew Gavin, mentioned he whiles away the times studying books on chess, after which taking part in in opposition to himself.
He mentioned: ‘He’s extra into his chess. He has books on it – he simply reads books about chess. That’s how he’s now.
‘He has his hour exterior after which he goes again in.
‘He performs in opposition to himself. I do not actually understand how he does it.
‘He can go to the gymnasium however he cannot do something as a result of his knees are going.’
Maudsley was born in Toxteth, Liverpool in 1953 and was the fourth little one of a neighborhood lorry driver.
But he had an sad begin to life and was taken into care at a younger age together with his two brothers and sister after they had been discovered to be victims of ‘parental neglect’.
After a number of years in care, Maudsley and his siblings went again to reside together with his dad and mom however there they had been crushed severely and suffered ‘bodily abuse’, his brother mentioned.
During his final homicide trial in 1979, the courtroom heard that in his violent rages Maudsley believed his victims had been his dad and mom.
He mentioned: ‘When I kill, I believe I’ve my dad and mom in thoughts. If I had killed my dad and mom in 1970, none of those folks want have died. If I had killed them, then I might be strolling round as a free man with out a care on this planet.’
Maudsley dedicated his first homicide in 1974, at 21, after working away to London to work as a male prostitute as as a 16-year-old.
He brutally murdered paedophile John Farrell in Wood Green, after he confirmed photos of kids he had sexually abused.
Following the slaying, he handed himself in to police and instantly confessed his crime.
Maudsley was despatched to Broadmoor Hospital, house to a few of Britain’s most violent criminals after he was deemed unfit to face trial.
Retired jail officer Neil Samworth has revealed why he thinks Maudsley (pictured) ought to now not be stored in solitary confinement
Maudsley was despatched to HMP Wakefield (pictured) – nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’ – after being convicted of manslaughter
At Broadmoor he was a ‘mannequin’ prisoner till 1977 when he and fellow prisoner David Cheeseman locked themselves in a cell with little one molester David Francis.
After a grotesque nine-hour torture ordeal, the callous pair dangled Francis’s lifeless physique for jail guards to see.
According to at least one guard, the person was found together with his head ‘cracked open like a boiled egg’ with a spoon hanging out of it and a part of the mind lacking.
Maudsley was then despatched to HMP Wakefield – nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’ – after being convicted of manslaughter.
At Wakefield in 1978 Maudsley strangled and stabbed Salney Darwood, 46, who had been jailed for killing his spouse.
He hid Darwood’s physique below mattress earlier than sneaking into the cell of paedophile Bill Roberts, 56, who had sexually abused a lady aged seven.
He stabbed Roberts, hacked his cranium with a makeshift dagger and smashed his head in opposition to a wall.
It was solely then that the brutal ‘Hannibal’ killer was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2000, Maudsley launched a authorized bid to the courts requesting to be allowed to die.
He wrote a letter asking: ‘What goal is served by maintaining me locked up 23 hours a day?
‘Why even hassle to feed me and to provide me one hour’s train a day? Who truly am I a threat to?’
In the letter he described that his present therapy and confinement had led him to look ahead to a ‘psychological breakdown,’ psychological sickness and ‘possible suicide’.
Maudsley is stored separated from different inmates inside Wakefield (pictured) after he killed three folks whereas serving a sentence for homicide
HMP Wakefield (pictured) holds a few of Britain’s most harmful killers and infamous inmates
He went on to query why he could not have a pet budgie, promising to adore it and ‘not eat it’.
Also questioning why he could not have a tv to ‘see the world’ and educate himself or music tapes.
He ended the letter saying: ‘If the Prison Service says no then I ask for a easy cyanide capsule which I shall willingly take and the issue of Robert John Maudsley can simply and swiftly be resolved.’
Despite his wicked crimes, a veteran jail officer who has guarded a few of Britain’s most harmful males instructed MailOnline that Maudsley must be moved out of solitary.
Neil Samworth, who served at HMP Strangeways in Manchester for greater than a decade, mentioned: ‘I believe it is fallacious the best way he has been handled. He is in whole isolation and isn’t honest.
He added: ‘I believe his crimes are historic now and he represents no actual hazard to others. It’s a bit like Charlie Bronson.
‘Yes, he has had numerous fights prior to now however he’s an previous man now.’
