Robert Maudsley: the terrible story of the real “Hannibal Lecter” who has been locked up underground for 40 years | England | NMR | WORLD

Robert Maudsley is an English criminal known for inspiring the iconic film character “Hannibal Lecter.” He has spent 40 years in a glass cell under Wakefield Prison, in England.

A documentary calledHMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars” This serial killer has been made popular once more by the testimony of Maudsley’s nephew, Gavin, who recounts how his cultured, soft-spoken uncle became a criminology figure.

What’s more, he tells how the murderer warned in a letter that he would kill once more if he was released. That is why, due to the threat it represents, they decided to make a glass cage similar to the one in Hannibal Lecter in the film.

How is the glass prison?

It is a place 5.5 meters long, 4.5 meters wide, and the windows are bulletproof, where it is guarded by armed guards 23 hours a day.

In said room there is only a table, a chair, which were made of compressed cardboard. While the toilet and sink are hermetically fixed to the ground.

The bed is concrete and the door is made of solid steel. The cage is surrounded by thick acrylic panels, where it only has one opening to receive food.

Maudsley is allowed to exercise for one hour accompanied by 6 armed guards and no inmates nearby.

a childhood of terror

Robert Maudsley He was born in 1953 in Toxteth, a town near Liverpool. He was abandoned by his biological parents along with his eleven siblings. They all went to a Catholic orphanage on Merseyside.

When they were eight years old, their biological parents took them back home to collect maintenance insurance. That’s where hell began.

Robert Maudsley’s childhood was spent in a home filled with drugs and an abusive father. (Photo: Capture)

The woman was addicted to cocaine and the father was an alcoholic. It is known that the man abused Robert and gave him constant beatings. Besides, he locked him up for long periods of time.

“What I remember most regarding those moments were the beatings. I was once locked in my room for six months. My father would only open the door to hit me and rape me.” Maudsley recounted as an adult.

At the age of 16, he left that house for a juvenile center. That’s where he became addicted to marijuana and cocaine. In addition, he dedicated himself to prostitution to solve his addictions.

crimes

At 21, his first crime occurred. he strangled John Farrela pedophile whom he beat until exhaustion.

After the crime, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and psychological tests advised that he never be released. “If they do it, he will kill once more and once more”they pointed out.

However, Maudsley went to a psychiatric hospital due to suspected psychosis.

He seemed to be calm, but in 1977 he was locked up with David Cheesemananother pedophile, whom he ended up killing following torturing him.

Thus began a string of murders in prison. He killed three prisoners in the end. He killed a convicted child rapist and, following opening a skull cap, ate part of his brain. From that moment he was declared a danger to society.

a strange personality

It is known that Robert Maudsley He is the Briton who has spent the longest in isolation. He previously talked regarding his passions: classical music, reading, art and poetry. In addition, he possesses a much higher IQ than average.

It is known that in 2000 he asked to be allowed to die and following the refusal he wrote a letter. “What is the use of keeping me locked up 23 hours a day? Why even bother feeding me and giving me an hour of exercise? Who am I really a risk to?

Years later he asked for board games with the guards, a parrot to talk to, but all his requests were discarded until 2017. In that year they gave him a PlayStation 2 and on his 64th birthday they gave him the video game “Call of Duty”.

In a letter Maudsley stated that if she had killed her parents, not one more person would have died. He will never see the streets once more and will be remembered for being imprisoned underground. “My life alone is a long period of uninterrupted depression.noted in 2003.

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