Robert Maudsley: Last News

Channel 5 documentary, HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars, has focused on the Yorkshire institution, and in one section highlighted the jail’s large amounts of sex offenders.Containing infamous names including Roy Whiting – who was convicted of abducting and murdering 8 year-old Sarah Payne in 2000 – the so-called 'Monster Mansion' is also home to Robert Maudsley, who has spent more than 30 years locked up.As well as revealing details about life inside, the documentary offered viewers an understanding of labels given to offenders during their time as inmates.Mark, a former inmate, began by explaining that HMP Wakefield carried a reputation for housing prisoners who would typically be held in solitary confinement in other jails.“What prisoners refer to as ‘nonces’, or sex offenders, or people in prison for serious crimes against women and children,” he added.And, Noel ‘Razor’ Smith, who did time at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, suggested that HMP Wakefield had been so full of prisoners who had taken part in sex crimes, that a new term had been invented.“Wakefield is where the word ‘nonce’ for sex offender actually originated,” he claimed.Noel explained that this term had been developed because of the risk to sex offenders of being attacked when prisoners were let out of their cells.He continued: “They had a slate board outside the cell with your name and number, and they would put the letters, ‘N.O.N.C.E’ on it, which actually meant ‘not on normal courtyard exercise’.“So when the staff came round to unlock everybody for exercise and let them out, when they saw nonce on the door they would leave them locked up because they knew if they let them out, the other prisoners would attack them.“So it became the universal word for

A former prison officer has said that 'Hannibal the Cannibal' should be taken out of solitary confinement.

A former Strangeways prison officer believes that serial killer Robert Maudsley, also known as 'Hannibal the Cannibal', should be removed from solitary confinement.

"All alone now." These were the only three words written by Robert Maudsley in a final letter to a psychiatrist in the 1990s.

A notorious serial killer will remain in an isolated underground cell until he dies after spending more than 16,500 consecutive days locked up in isolation.

One of the UK's most threatening serial killers has spent a total of 16,400 days living in solitary confinement inside a glass cell since 1979. Robert Maudsley, who is Britain's longest-serving prisoner, has spent the last 49 years of his life in prison and is set to die in an underground glass box after killing four men in the 1970s.

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 shortEarly 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.

The UK's "Hannibal the Cannibal" serial killer will die in an underground glass box after having his Christmas appeal for freedom rejected.

prison food, they think of porridge – but in fact the traditional breakfast has been banned in prisons for over a decade.According to prison paper Inside Time, oatmeal is not permitted because it can be used to block up door locks.These days there’s a pretty varied menu on offer inside.

A notorious killer, too dangerous to mix with other prisoners, spends 23 hours a day locked inside a glass box.

murdering child molesters in a string of brutal attacks will die underground "alone" in a bulletproof cage. Robert Maudsley, now 64, is believed to be so dangerous that he must remain confined in isolation for 23 hours a day following his horror history.

serial killers claims his evil legacy has meant she now can only attract "the worst sort of psychos."Claire Maudsley, whose uncle is prolific murderer Robert Maudsley, was left battered and bruised after her partner claimed she had sex with other hotel guests while they were staying at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxBritain's most dangerous prisoner spends 23 hours a day locked inside a glass box.Robert Maudsley, 67, has been behind bars since 1974, but that hasn't stopped him from carrying out three grisly murders.Born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Maudsley was one of 12 children subjected to violent abuse from their father, who once locked him in a room for six months.When Maudsley turned 16 he left home but became ensnared in drug abuse, having to work as a rent boy to fund his habit.The first man he murdered was a client named John Farrell, who Maudsley garrotted after seeing photos of children Farrell had sexually abused.

Few people will remember the name Robert Maudsley - but the Wakefield Prison inmate is Britain's most dangerous man.