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A mass assassin who was as soon as thought to have eaten the brains of his victims will probably be celebrating Christmas this yr after 45 years behind bars.

Robert Maudsley, now 71, has been convicted of three murders and one depend of manslaughter for the killings of a person and three fellow male prisoners in the course of the Seventies.

In 1978 the killer managed to slay two inmates in sooner or later throughout a bloody rampage at HMP Wakefield, earlier than he calmly knowledgeable the guards they might have two much less names for the night roll name.

Born in Liverpool, Maudsley is taken into account so harmful to fellow inmates the Liverpool Echo reviews he’s confined to a perspex cage much like that used to detain the Hannibal Lecter character performed by actor Anthony Hopkins within the movie, Silence of the Lambs.

Maudsley’s cell or “dungeon” has been reported as “bulletproof”, 18ft by 15ft and with a “concrete slab for a bed”. It can also be stated to be decked out with bulletproof home windows and a cardboard desk and chair, reviews the Liverpool Echo.

He was first imprisoned for homicide in 1974 for strangling baby molester John Farrell in Wood Green, London, after the paedophile confirmed Maudsley footage of youngsters he had sexually abused.

In 1977, Maudsley and fellow inmate David Cheeseman barricaded themselves in a cell with one other baby molester, David Francis, subjecting him to 9 hours of torture. This horrific act resulted in Maudsley being convicted of manslaughter and subsequently transferred to HMP Wakefield.

His violent streak continued into 1978 when he strangled and stabbed Salney Darwood, aged 46, earlier than turning his consideration to paedophile Bill Roberts, 56. He stabbed Roberts after which brutally smashed his head right into a wall.

The killer’s noteriety elevated after false reviews within the press he had consumed a number of the flesh of his inmate victims, main him to be dubbed “Hannibal the Cannibal” by the press and “The Brain Eater” by prisoners.

Maudsley as soon as wrote: “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 does not matter to them whether I am mad or bad. They do not know the answer and they do not care just so long as I am kept out of sight and out of mind.”

The assassin made a failed bid to be moved out of solitary in 2000, and despatched letters to The Times requesting a cyanide suicide tablet.

He is alleged to have a excessive IQ and to like ­classical music, poetry and artwork, and people who have visited him inside describe him as light, sort and very smart.

Former detective Paul Harrison stated in 2018 of Maudsley after assembly him: “If you didn’t know him and what he’d done, and you saw him, he’s a really intelligent, clever guy, who made you smile.”

US prisoner Albert Woodfox held the world report for solitary confinement at 43 years earlier than his launch in 2016.

The Ministry of Justice insisted there was “no such thing as solitary confinement in our prison system”. A Prison Service spokesman stated: “Some offenders will be segregated if they pose a risk to others.

“They are allowed time in the open air every day, visits, phone calls, and access to legal advice and medical care like everyone else.” Segregation of prisoners is “reviewed regularly”, the spokesman added.