UK's 'most dangerous' prisoner kept locked in underground glass box
Robert Maudsley has spent decades living in solitary underground due to multiple murders behind bars.
The UK's most dangerous prisoner was such a prolific killer that he was required to live in solitary in a glass cage.
Robert Maudsley was put in psychiatric care at Broadmoor Hospital at age 21 for murdering John Farrell, a convicted child molester, in 1974 after he was found unfit to stand trial.
The high-profile killer went on to kill David Francis in 1997 behind bars at Broadmoor before he was sent to HMP Wakefield where he murdered two other inmates in 1978.
Now 70, the prisoner has spent most of his life behind bars and more than 16,000 days in solitary confinement, with prison officials finding he was too dangerous to be housed with the general population at HMP Wakefield.
Although he now lives his days in a glass box, a psychiatrist believes it is time for Maudsley to gain his freedom.
The additional killings saw Maudsley relegated to solitary confinement and earned him the moniker "Britain's most dangerous prisoner" in the press.
After 16,500 days living underground in a perspex cage and having his food served via a slot in a metal door, a psychologist has said he feels the UK's longest-serving prisoner is wasted behind bars.
The Daily Mirror has reported that during an interview with Shaun Attwood on his True Crime Podcast, prison psychiatrist Dr Bob Johnson said the inmate is a "very intelligent man".
He said that instead of serving his sentence behind bars and "costing the state £500k a year", he should be employed "with a very high salary".
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Dr Johnson said: "I would employ Maudsley with a very high salary because he’s got a good brain, and he should pay £10,000 a year to each family he has deprived a member of."
"Not lock him up at the cost of the state £500k a year, it’s ludicrous, he needs to pay compensation for what he’s done. I’m sure if I’d been able to continue, he would have done that."
Dr Johnson treated Maudsley more than 30 years ago in 1991, and said he appeared "gaunt" and "miserable as sin" at the time.
The long time in solitary had long taken its toll on Maudsley, who, in 2000, asked for the terms of his confinement to be relaxed or to be allowed to take a cyanide capsule.
