‘Cannibal killer’ in underground cell vows to kill again if he ever gets out
A sick serial killer who has meted out brutal vigilante justice on three lags while behind bars has promised he will kill again if he’s ever released.
Robert Maudsley has been in solitary confinement in a glass cell since 1979 and is Britain's longest serving prisoner, having been caged for 47 years for the murder of four men in the 1970s.
He was locked up for garrotting John Farrell, in March 1974 after Farrell picked up Maudsley for sex and showed him pictures of children he had sexually abused. He gave himself up to police and was sent to Broadmoor.
He went on to lock himself in a cell and, along with another inmate, spent nine hours torturing convicted child molester David Francis to death.
Maudsley was then transferred to Wakefield Prison where he garrotted and stabbed killer Salney Darwood, hiding his victim’s body under his bed.
He then roamed around the prison hunting for a second victim, eventually cornering sex offender William Roberts and stabbing him to death and smashing his skull against a wall.
Maudsley calmly walked into the wing office, dropped the dagger on the table and told the officer that the next roll call would be two short
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Early reports of the double killing suggested Maudsley had eaten part of the brain of one of his victims, which earned him the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal and "The Brain Eater"
Now aged 68, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in a specially constructed underground cell. Maudsley says he is "happy and content in solitary” and doesn’t want to be released.
Channel 5's hard-hitting documentary HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars lifts the lid on the maximum-security jail sometimes called “the English Alcatraz”
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Through interviews with inmates, ex-prisoners, guards and relatives of notorious inmates, the documentary gave a rare insight into the lives of the prison’s inmates.
While Maudsley himself did not speak to the crew, his nephew Gavin reveals how his softly-spoken and well-read uncle is happy to remain locked away from the rest of the world in solitary.
Maudsley’s underground cell is a 18ft by 14ft bullet proof glass cage that was specially constructed in 1983, almost ten years after his sentence began.
In March 2000, Maudsley unsuccessfully pleaded for the terms of his solitary confinement be relaxed, or to be allowed to take his own life via a cyanide capsule. He also asked for a pet budgerigar, which was also denied.
He pleaded: "What purpose is served by keeping me locked up 23 hours a day?
"Why even bother to feed me and to give me one hour's exercise a day? Who actually am I a risk to?
"As a consequence of my current treatment and confinement, I feel that all I have to look forward to is indeed psychological breakdown, mental illness and probable suicide.
"Why can't I have a budgie instead of flies, cockroaches and spiders which I currently have. I promise to love it and not eat it?
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