Prison officers have told of life in a jail nicknamed Monster Mansion as it houses some of Britain’s most evil men.
Robert Maudsley, known as “Hannibal the Cannibal”, twisted murderer Levi Bellfield and sex attacker John Worboys are just some of the violent criminals held at Wakefield Prison.
And stories such as how prisoners would go to see ‘Dr Death’ Harold Shipman, for medical advice have come out in a new book that has explored the secrets at the jail.
Charles Bronson, who was first jailed in 1974 for armed robbery and is one of the UK’s most notorious criminals, is said to have behaved like a “spoilt child” at Wakefield and lived in a cell with a television, phone and nice furniture but would still moan. In the book by Jonathan Levi and Dr Emma French, Maudsley is claimed to hate Bronson and would wind him up by playing loud rock music before he was locked in a glass cell due to his violence.
Robert Maudsley is an inmate at Wakefield Prison (Unknown)Maudsley, 70, forced a spoon into the brain of a child sex attacker at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in 1977 as he tortured and garrotted him. A nurse at the scene told Mr Levi and Dr French how they struggled to break into the cell while the attack went on, reported The Sun.
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“The victim, eventually put out of his agony with a makeshift garrotting, was then paraded in front of the cell’s spy hatch for the helpless Broadmoor staff to see. When they finally gained access, the victim was partially skinned. This flaying had likely taken place while he was still alive, as his screams echoing through Broadmoor during his ordeal had testified,” the nurse said.
Charles Bronson is one of the country's most notorious criminals (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Convicted paedophile Ian Watkins (PA)The authors of 'Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars In The Monster Mansion' spent months putting together the book where they spoke to prison officers and former inmates. Former prison officer Martin Baker reportedly told how medical advice was taken from Shipman who murdered around 250 of his patients. He said: “When I was dealing with people down at the gym they were coming in with remedials. I’d say, ‘Oh yeah, you might have a slight ligament tear there or something’. They would reply, ‘Oh well, Harold Shipman says I’ve got a so-and-so. I’d say, ‘Well, he can’t treat you anyway so I don’t care what he says you’ve got!’.”
Mr Baker also described triple murderer Bellfield, whose victims included 13-year-old Milly Dowler as a “typical psychopath”. Prison officers claimed that Roy Whiting, who killed eight-year-old Sarah Payne, 2000, and Mark Bridger, who murdered April Jones, five, in 2012 are at the most risk of attacks. An insider reportedly said of Whiting who was stabbed this year: “He never comes out of his cell. He just chain smokes. He wears prison clothing, he is like a tramp. He works in Workshop 8 using a sewing machine.”
Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, whose crimes included the rape of a baby, has also been kept at the prison and buys protection as he is “considered vile amongst other offenders” said an insider. Watkins was stabbed at the jail last year but the source from the jail said that he still has many female fans and receives a lot of letters.
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