Maudsley was ultimately given a life sentence and confined to his solitary cell in the depths of Wakefield prison. His actions made him one of Britain's most infamous criminals, and he was once ...

Robert Maudsley, now 68, spends his days locked away in a special underground cell under Wakefield Prison and is one of the country's longest-serving prisoners.

Serial killer Robert Maudsley, now 68, has been locked away in a glass prison cell since 1979 after he was sent down for 47 years for murdering four men in a wave of brutal vigilante slaying in ...

The 71-year-old, currently on hunger strike, has been confined in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison since 1983. But what is ...

Robert Maudsley, 71, was locked in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983, after he killed child abuser ...

It is the story of a neglected and beaten young man who ended up being locked up for life alone in a glass cell beneath HMP Wakefield. All Sections News you can trust since 1754 ...

Maudsley’s underground cell is a specially constructed 5.5 metres by 4.5 metre space with a bullet proof glass cage that was built in 1983, almost ten years after his sentence began.

Maudsley resides in a 'glass cage', a two-cell unit at Wakefield prison eerily similar to the one depicted in The Silence of the Lambs. This cell was constructed for Maudsley in 1983, seven years ...

Maudsley was locked in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983, after he killed child abuser John Farrell when he was just 21. News. James Rodger Content Editor.

The cell, which was completed in 1983, was dubbed the glass cage - as it resembled Anthony Hopkins' cell in Silence of the Lambs. At 5.5mx4.5m, it's surrounded by bulletproof glass which prison ...

Since 1983, Maudsley has resided in an 18ft by 15ft glass cell deep within Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The 71-year-old is set to spend Christmas Day in this cell, where he is confined for 23 ...