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Kill Total: |
4 |
Kill place: |
London, prison |
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Kill date: |
1973
1977
1978
1978 |
Victim(s): |
John Farrell
name unknown
Salney Darwood
Bill Roberts |
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Date of Birth: |
June 1953 |
Marital Status: |
Single |
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AKA: |
Hannibal the Cannibal |
Occupation: |
None |
Maudsley was a
rent boy (male prostitute) in 1973, he was picked up by
paedophile John Farrell, who showed Maudsley picture
of children that he has abused , Maudsley reacted badly to
this and strangled the labourer. Maudsley was
declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was sent to
Broadmoor.
Three years later, while in prison he and a fellow
prisoner killed a paedophile. They grabbed the man, locked
themselves into a room and tortured and eventually killed
the man. A guard said he fractured the man's skull
like an egg and then ate part of his brain with a spoon.
Maudsley was
convicted of manslaughter for this crime, having been
found fit to stand trial, and sent to Wakefield prison, he
was not happy, and demanded to be retuned to Broadmoor.
In 1978, he
killed two more convicts, the first was convicted
sex offender Salney
Darwood,
he lured him into his cell strangling, and then stabbing
the man, and hiding the body under his bed. He then went
on the prowl around the prison, eventually grabbing, and
stabbing to death Bill Roberts. He then calmly walked to
the Governors office and told them that the next roll call
would be two people short.
Because of his
prison killings Maudsley was placed into solitary
confinement, a punishment he described as being buried
alive in a concrete coffin.
Maudsley now
lives in a 'glass cage', a two-cell unit at Wakefield
prison that is very like to the one featured in the film "The
Silence of the Lambs". It was built in the basement of
Wakefield prison for Maudsley in 1983, seven years before
the film was released. At around 5.5m by 4.5m, the two
cells are slightly larger than average and have large
bulletproof windows through which inmates can be observed.
The only furniture is a table and chair, both made of
compressed cardboard. The toilet and sink are bolted to
the floor, the bed is a concrete slab.
A solid steel door opens into a small cage within the
cell, encased in thick Perspex, with a small slot at the
bottom through which guards pass him food and other items.
He remains in the cell for 23 hours a day. During his
daily hour of exercise, he is escorted to the yard by six
prison officers. He is not allowed contact with any other
inmates. It is a level of intense isolation to which no
other prisoner i the UK, not even Myra Hindley, has
been subjected.
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March 2000,
Maudsley has written to The Times newspaper, asking that
the prison service give him access to classical music, a
TV, and a pert budgie. He stated that if none of these
could be given, he wanted to be allowed to take his own
life with a cyanide capsule.
One of the
Letters to the Times said: "I am left to stagnate;
vegetate; and to regress; left to confront my solitary
head-on with people who have eyes but don't see and who
have ears but don't hear, who have mouths but don't speak."
In another letter he asks: "Why can't I have a budgie
instead of the flies and cockroaches and spiders I
currently have? I promise to love it and not eat it."
February
2008 Reported in national press that Maudsley is close
to death, having lost a large amount of weight. a doctor
is visiting him on a regular basis.
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