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One notoriously harmful killer has been saved in solitary confinement for round 46 years after murdering 4 individuals. Robert Maudsley, 71, dedicated a string of horrific murders, together with three whereas in jail, and ever since has been locked away in a specifically made glass cell.

The UK’s most harmful serial killer – nicknamed “Hannibal The Cannibal” – has been held in a solitary jail cell for greater than 4 many years. He is ready to spend the remainder of his life in a dungeon beneath Wakefield Prison. US prisoner Albert Woodfox beforehand held the world report for solitary confinement at 43 years, which has since been overtaken by Maudsley.

Liverpool-born Maudsley dedicated his first horrific homicide aged simply 21, whereas serving time in jail he went on to kill one other three males. Born one in all 12 youngsters, as a child Maudsley was taken into care. He spent his early years dwelling at Nazareth House, a Catholic orphanage in Merseyside.

When he was eight, his dad and mom got here to take him and his siblings dwelling and he was subjected to years of violent abuse.

Once, a younger Maudsley was locked in a room for six months, his solely contact was violence from his father. As quickly as he was 16, Maudsley fled dwelling however quickly turned trapped in a spiral of drug abuse and funded his behavior by working as a prostitute.

One of his purchasers, John Farrell, was the primary man he murdered in 1974. Maudsley garrotted him after he confirmed him images of kids he had sexually abused.

Maudsley was jailed for all times with the advice that he ought to by no means be launched and despatched to Broadmoor Hospital, which housed a number of the nation’s most harmful prisoners.

For a number of years, Maudsley saved himself out of hassle however in 1977 he and fellow prisoner, David Cheeseman, barricaded themselves in a cell with convicted baby molester, David Francis. For 9 hours they tortured Francis to demise, Maudsley at one level rammed a spoon via his ear and into his mind, incomes him the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal.

Maudsley was then moved to the utmost safety Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire however a 12 months after he killed Francis his murderous rage returned. On July 29 1978, he garrotted and stabbed Salney Darwood who was in jail for killing his spouse, in his cell and hid the physique underneath the mattress.

By 1983, a specifically made glass cell was made for Maudsley. He is locked within the cell for 23 hours a day, solely being freed for an hour of train. He is escorted to the train yard by six guards and isn’t allowed any contact with different inmates.

In a determined try for firm, in 2000 Maudsley begged for the phrases of his imprisonment to be relaxed. He requested for a pet budgie after which, if that was refused, for a cyanide capsule so he might finish his life.

His requests have been denied and Maudsley will spend the remainder of his life, alone, in his glass field beneath Wakefield Prison.

Maudsey as soon as mentioned: “When I kill, I think I have my parents in mind. If I had killed my parents in 1970, none of these people need have died. If I had killed them, then I would be walking around as a free man without a care in the world.”