The UK's longest-serving prisoner will be spending Christmas Day behind bars just like he has done for the past 50 years.
Known as 'Britain's most dangerous killer', Robert Maudsley has killed four people over the course of four years.
Born in Liverpool in 1953 as one of three siblings, Maudsley was allegedly abused by his parents before he worked as a sex worker in London in the 60s to support his drug addiction.
His first murder came in 1974 when he killed John Farrell showed him evidence of child sexual abuse after picking him up for sex.
Three years later, Maudsley and another prisoner tortured and killed child molester David Francis in Broadmoor Hospital - which earnt him the nickname 'Hannibal The Cannibal' after he was supposedly attacked by Maudsley with a spoon being driven into his brain.
However, the cannibal rumours were proven to be false. He then killed two inmates at HMP Wakefield when he was sent there.
In total, he was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of manslaughter.
Aged 71, Maudsley remains in Wakefield and is reportedly kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day.
Robert Maudsley has been locked up since 1974 (Channel 5)
Sentenced to life, he will be spending Christmas Day behind bars, and according to prison documents, this is what will be on the menu for lunch:
- Vegan Schnitzels
- Vegetarian Peppered Veg Pie
- Sliced Turkey
- Half Roast Chicken
- Halal Half Roast Chicken
- Roast/New Potatoes
- Carrots & Sprouts
- Pigs in Blankets
- Christmas Pudding
- White Sauce Vegan Christmas Pudding
- White Sauce Apple
This comes after Maudsley himself said in a letter in 2003 that he wanted to move to better conditions.
He is thought to be the longest-serving prisoner in the UK's penal system (BBC)
He wrote: "The prison authorities see me as a problem, and their solution has been to put me into solitary confinement and throw away the key, to bury me alive in a concrete coffin.
"It does not matter to them whether I am mad or bad. They do not know the answer and they do not care just so long as I am kept out of sight and out of mind.
"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.
"My life in solitary is one long period of unbroken depression."
During trial, Maudsley said he was thinking about his parents when his murders took place and that if he killed them, he would never have committed the crimes.
Meanwhile, a retired prison officer from Strangeways has since called for Maudsley to be taken out of solitary confinement.
Neil Samworth told the Daily Mail "I think it's wrong the way he has been treated. He is in total isolation and is not fair.
"I think his crimes are historic now and he represents no real danger to others. It's a bit like Charlie Bronson. Yes, he has had lots of fights in the past but he is an old man now."
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