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Published 14:06 21 Jan 2023 GMT
Updated 14:09 21 Jan 2023 GMT
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Maudsley has been dubbed 'Hannibal the Cannibal' because of his solitary confinement cell and rumours that he dug a spoon into one of his victims' heads[/caption]
It is believed that the cell contains a bed, a table and a chair made of compressed cardboard. His toilet and sink are firmly bolted to the floor, reports suggest.
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Maudsley wrote in 2003: "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."
He continued: "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."
Maudsley will never be released and will die in his 5.5m by 4.5m glass cell.
In the early days of his confinement he wrote to newspapers campaigning for better treatment. In 2000, he went to court in a bid to be “allowed to die”.
In a letter he asked why he couldn’t have a pet budgie, promising to love it and “not eat it”.
He also requested a cyanide capsule so that the "problem of Robert John Mawdsley can easily and swiftly be resolved.”
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