UK’s notorious ‘jail paedo slayer’ heard for first time – ‘precise madness’
Robert Maudsley, also known to be Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, lost his last appeal for release in 2021 and will be incarcerated in his own glass cell until he dies.
Robert Maudsley has spoken about his life behind bars(Image: Unknown)
A serial killer dubbed the UK’s ‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ has spoken out for the first time in 40 years to moan about being stuck in a cell with no visitors. Robert Maudsley, also known to be Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, lost his last appeal for release in 2021 and will be incarcerated in his own glass cell until he dies.
He cannot make any further appeals against the decision and will never see the light of day again. But now for the first time in almost half a century his voice has been heard in a recording as he moaned about the conditions he is being kept in.
The truth behind Maudsley’s life behind bars can finally be revealed by the killer himself after a relative passed a recording of one of his calls from jail. Released to the Daily Mail, he can be heard raging to a relative in the phone call, which was then passed onto the media.
Maudsley in a TV documentary(Image: Screengrab)
“The fact is, for the last 13 months, they’ve not allowed me to have any visits whatsoever, because they put me on closed visits [where inmate and guest are separated by a glass screen],” he said.
“What they’re actually saying is, we want you to talk to staff.
“I’m locked in my cell 22 hours a day, and the only exercise I get is on the exercise yard. I’m not going to use my time in the fresh air and on the exercise yard, talking to people who are actually abusing me.
“That’s actual insanity, the way they are treating me. I’m stuck in my cell 22 and a half hours a day. If they want to talk to me, all they have to do is come to my cell and say, “Bob, do you want to have a talk?”, or “Bob, do you want to engage?”.
“For 13 months, not one member of staff has ever come to my cell asking me to talk to them or asked me to engage with them – not one, Gavin.
“That’s how they treated me, and they expect me then to actually speak to them.”
HMP Wakefield.
Maudsley who murdered child molesters, appealed in 2021 to be allowed to spend the rest of his prison days with the “general population” but chiefs ruled him too dangerous to mix with prisoners and guards at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
He was jailed for killing a number of people, including John Farrell after he’d showed him photos of children he’d abused and Salney Darwood, a man who killed his own wife in the 1970s.
Maudsley was first jailed at the age of 21 when he killed someone while working as a gigolo.
He was declared unfit to stand trial and locked up in Broadmoor Hospital.
Three years later, he and fellow prisoner, David Cheeseman, barricaded themselves inside a room with tied up child molester, David Francis.
The pair tortured him to death before dangling his body for prison guards to see.
He was then charged with manslaughter and moved to maximum security Wakefield Prison where he killed two other prisoners.
In 1978, Maudsley strangled and stabbed Mr Darwood, a 46-year-old who was locked up for killing his wife.
After hiding Darwood’s body under a bed, he then creeped into the cell of Bill Roberts, 56, who had sexually abused a seven-year-old girl.
He stabbed Roberts, hacked his skull with a makeshift dagger and smashed his head against a wall.
He is now contained in a glass cell beneath the prison, alone, so he cannot hurt anyone else.
Maudsley’s underground cell is a specially constructed 5.5 metres by 4.5 metre space with bullet proof glass cage that was built in 1983, nearly ten years after his prison sentence began.
