'Britain's most dangerous killer' will spend Christmas locked in underground glass box
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As families up and down the UK tuck into their Christmas dinners, one violent killer dubbed 'Hannibal the Cannibal' - believed to be too dangerous to share the day with fellow inmates - will be kept isolated in an underground glass cell. Robert Maudsley, 71, has earned a number of gruesome nicknames over the years. 'Blue' on account of the colour of his first victim's face as he slowly strangled the life out of him. There's also 'Spoons' - a gruesome reference to another killing where he left a spoon sticking out of the skull of one victim, who was left with part of their brain missing.
Reports at the time claimed that Maudsley ate one of his victims's brains, earning him comparisons to Hannibal Lector. He denied this, but the conditions in which he is kept bear striking comparisons to the fictional cannibal. And having spent more than 216,800 consecutive days in solitary confinement, he's reportedly expressed hopes of spending Christmas in the "presence of other humans". This wish has yet to be granted.
Regarded as the "most dangerous" serial killer, Liverpool-born Maudsley, who has taken four lives, is the longest-serving British prisoner in solitary confinement. However, he has claimed he only poses a threat to sex offenders, and has previously begged for a budgie to keep him company in the long, lonely years in his 18ft by 14ft box.
Since 1983, Maudsley has spent his time inside an 18ft by 15ft glass cell deep within Wakefield Prison, in West Yorkshire. The 71-year-old is due to spend Christmas Day in the cell with no exceptions forthcoming. Day after day, Maudsley is held in the cell for 23 hours. He will never be freed from prison and will instead remain in the tiny room for the rest of his life.
