Charles Bronson releases letter from jail forward of parole listening to | EUROtoday

Charles Bronson has vowed to “expose” his “unlawful sentence and treatment” as his plea for launch is to be thought-about at an oral listening to within the coming months.

The 73-year-old – as soon as thought-about one in every of Britain’s most violent offenders – could possibly be invited to talk on the assembly after eight failed makes an attempt to hunt parole.

“I am 23 years over my tariff. I am forever denied progress. I am forever kept in solitary,” Bronson wrote in a letter to Sky News. “They will not even take me off Cat A.”

He added: “I have to expose this unlawful sentence and treatment. It’s now gone on for far to long [sic] it’s become a total joke.”

Bronson – who is also known by the surname Salvador after he changed it in tribute to the artist Salvador Dali – has spent most of the last 50 years in prison for a string of violent offences.

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They include thefts, firearm crimes and violence, and 11 hostage-taking incidents in nine different sieges.

After 12 years without a violent conviction, it was decided that Bronson’s case would be reconsidered, allowing witnesses and evidence to be assessed to determine his current risk level.

It will then be decided whether he is safe enough to be released into the community.

“My hopes for the hearing are that Mr Salvador can finally have some progression,” his lawyer Gurdeep Singh told the broadcaster.

“He has been languishing in solitary confinement for years now without any future plans for him.

“With the right support in place, there is no reason why he should not be released into the community, allowing Mr Salvador to continue focusing on his charity work with the Born Art Foundation.”

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In 2000, Bronson was handed a discretionary life sentence after taking a jail trainer at HMP Hull hostage for 44 hours. Since then, he has been denied all pleas for parole.

Diagnosed with delinquent persona dysfunction, Bronson – whose beginning identify was Michael Peterson – was convicted of his first crime in 1974 on the age of 21. He reoffended throughout two transient durations of freedom and was despatched again to jail.

His final attraction for parole was rejected at a public oral listening to in March 2023. He is claimed to have spent most of his time in jail in solitary confinement, with as much as 23 hours a day spent locked in his cell.

He mentioned whereas he used to search out violence “cathartic”, he has since sought solace in his artwork and practices “deep breathing” to deal with destructive emotions, and he now professes to be “anti-crime” and not violent.

A date for the listening to has not but been set.