‘Britain’s Most Dangerous Men’ Robert Maudsley Jailed Behind 17 Steel Doors

Robert Maudsley, a 70-year-old serial killer considered one of Britain’s most dangerous men, has been locked in a glass cage reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter’s cell for the past 45 years because of his threat to the address of other inmates, the UK Mirror reported. .

Despite already being imprisoned for murder, Maudsley brutally murdered three more prisoners while behind bars.

In their new book, Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, authors Jonathan Levi and Emma French delve into the details of Maudsley’s cell. They write: “Today, in Wakefield Prison, Maudsley is kept in prison for twenty-three hours a day. Everything in his cell is made of cardboard and you have to go through 17 steel doors to get to it.”

The authors spoke to a prison contact named Pete, who knew Maudsley and referred to his solitary confinement cell as “the safe”. Pete expressed his belief that Maudsley would kill again if released, stating: “The sad thing is if he lived with someone else, he would kill someone else. It would have been more humane to shoot him down.”

Levi and French also explored the various descriptions of the “perspex cell” offered by different contributors. Pete described the cell as having a metal frame with thick Perspex, allowing visibility into the cell. Another source noted that the cell, sometimes referred to as a “dungeon”, has a concrete plinth, an industrial blanket and an industrial dress for Maudsley.

Maudsley’s criminal history began with the strangulation of child abuser John Farrell in Wood Green, London, after Farrell showed him pictures of children he had sexually abused.

In 1977, Maudsley and another inmate, David Cheeseman, tortured and killed child abuser David Francis in a locked cell, leading to Maudsley being convicted of manslaughter and transferred to HMP Wakefield. His crimes escalated further in 1978 when he strangled and stabbed Salney Darwood, 46, and then killed pedophile Bill Roberts, 56, by stabbing and headbutting him in a wall.