'Britain's most dangerous killer' will spend Christmas isolated in underground glass box

Killer Robert Maudsley became the UK's longest-serving inmate pursuing the decease of kid murderer Ian Brady successful 2017 - helium has spent dozens of Christmases successful solitary confinements

Britain's "most dangerous" serial slayer Robert Maudsley volition walk Christmas isolated successful an underground solid cell.

The killer, dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal, is the longest-serving British captive successful solitary confinement. Since being imprisoned for execution successful 1974, helium has spent much than 216,800 consecutive days successful solitary confinement.

He was archetypal jailed astatine the property of 21, aft helium was recovered to person murdered kid abuser John Farrell, aged 30. He was deemed to beryllium excessively unsafe to support successful a regular situation compartment aft murdering convicted kid molesters and rapists.

Since 1983, Maudsley has spent his clip wrong an 18ft by 15ft solid compartment heavy wrong Wakefield Prison, successful West Yorkshire. With nary exceptions forthcoming, the 71-yer-old is owed to walk Christmas Day successful the cell.

Day aft day, Maudsley is held successful the compartment for 23 hours. He volition ne'er beryllium freed from situation and volition alternatively stay successful the tiny country for the remainder of his life.

The compartment hosts bulletproof windows, a array and seat fashioned retired of compressed cardboard. His compartment lavatory and descend are bolted to the level and the doorway has a tiny slot astatine the bottommost wherever nutrient is passed to him.

In 2021, helium mislaid an entreaty to walk Christmas with different inmates. He claimed to person "wanted to walk Christmas successful the beingness of different humans," but had been "told no," arsenic antecedently reported by the Daily Star.

Maudsley became Britain's longest-serving captive pursuing the decease of Moors murderer Ian Brady, who served 51 years successful situation and died successful 2017. During his spell successful jail, helium murdered 3 men and has continued to beryllium locked up.

Following the killings, Maudsley was considered to beryllium excessively unsafe to beryllium kept alongside different inmate and operation of his existent compartment was carried out. He erstwhile described the compartment arsenic "like being buried live successful a coffin," and helium antecedently campaigned for amended treatment.

Muadsley's nephew Gavin from Liverpool, antecedently told Channel 5's Evil Behind Bars that the slayer had accepted his fate: "He's asking to beryllium connected his ain due to the fact that helium knows what tin happen. Put him connected a helping surrounded by rapists and paedophiles - I cognize this due to the fact that helium told america - helium was going to termination arsenic galore paedophiles arsenic helium could. I'm not condoning what helium did.

"He did precise atrocious things. But helium didn't termination a kid oregon woman. An guiltless idiosyncratic didn't spell to enactment that time and ne'er returned home. The radical helium killed were truly atrocious people."

A erstwhile Strangeways situation bureau antecedently told The Manchester Evening News, should beryllium removed from solitary confinement. Neil Samworth, who worked astatine Strangeways, has shared his experiences successful 2 books and believes Maudsley should beryllium taken retired of solitary confinement.

He said successful February of this year: "I deliberation it's incorrect the mode helium has been treated. He is successful full isolation and is not fair. I deliberation his crimes are historical present and helium represents nary existent information to others. It's a spot similar Charlie Bronson. Yes, helium has had tons of fights successful the past but helium is an aged antheral now.'"