One of the UK's most dangerous serial killers will have to spend the rest of his days inside a transparent glass cell built in the basement of the English Wakefield prison.
British justice has rejected, in fact, the appeal of the lawyers of Robert Maudsley, 68, who wanted to spend the remaining years of his life sentence with the other inmates. Its extreme danger has been reiterated and the man must therefore still be controlled on sight, like the character of Hannibal Lecter in the film “The Silence of the Lambs”.
Maudsley, a native of Liverpool, is responsible for the killings of four men between 1974 and 1978.
The cell, protected by bulletproof glass, measures 5.5 x 4.5 meters, and was built specifically for him in 1983. He spends 23 hours a day inside, in addition to the so-called hour of air, he sleeps on a plate of concrete and uses toilets that are bolted to the floor.
Maudsley has a compressed cardboard table and chair at his disposal to prevent him from using any object as a weapon against the guards.
(Unioneonline / vl)
