A serial killer so dangerous he is locked in a bulletproof glass cell in one of Britain’s maximum security prisons will never show remorse for his sick crimes, his brother has revealed.
Robert Maudsley, 70, has been held in solitary confinement in a specially built glass cell since 1983 after killing three people in prison while serving a life sentence for murder.
The twisted killer is kept in the underground box, which measures 18ft by 14ft, for 23 hours a day, in the basement of Wakefield prison.
Maudsley was also nicknamed ‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ after false reports that he ate the brain of one of his victims.
He is guarded by four prison officers every time he leaves his cell and holds the world record for most consecutive days in solitary confinement.
His brother Kevin told MailOnline the killer is “happy” behind bars and will never apologize for his crimes because “they were all paedophiles”.
He added: ‘The visits give him something to live for. He’s just used to it.
Robert Maudsley (pictured), 68, is being held in a private underground cell below the general population of HMP Wakefield, after killing four men between 1974 and 1978.
Maudsley, seen as a child, is serving four life sentences in his glass cell that measures 18 feet by 14 feet.
Maudsley has told relatives that he is “happy” alone and does not want to be moved to less severe conditions.
Kevin, 71, visits his brother once a month and sits in an adjoining cell, talking through metal bars.
He said: “It’s settled, he wouldn’t want to move.”
‘I would rather be alone than in a normal prison. He just likes it.
‘I have visitors. He is in one and we are in another, with bars.
“He seems pretty happy in there.
“He seems fine, we laugh a lot.”
He seems quite happy there. He seems fine, we laugh a lot.
“We just talk about things like the outside: what it’s like, what’s going on and stuff like that.”
The violent prisoner has only been photographed once since his imprisonment after being filmed for a documentary about him more than 40 years ago.
His brother’s comments stand in stark contrast to the battle the inmate has waged against prison authorities in an effort to move him to better conditions.
In letters from more than 20 years ago, he wrote: “The prison authorities see me as a problem, and their solution has been to put me in solitary confinement and throw away the key, bury me alive in a cement coffin.”
‘They don’t care if I’m crazy or bad. They don’t know the answer and they don’t care as long as they keep me out of sight and out of mind.
‘I remain stagnant, vegetated and regressed; I was left to face my loneliness head on with people who have eyes but don’t see and who have ears but don’t hear, who have a mouth but don’t speak.
“My solo life is a long period of uninterrupted depression.”
In 2021, he lost an appeal to spend Christmas with others and was told he would be imprisoned in his cell until his death.
A year later, a Channel 5 documentary revealed that the serial killer had told his nephew that he had promised to kill again if he was freed.
Maudsley’s brother Paul (pictured) said he was “happy” living in his glass cell beneath HMP Wakefield.
Last week at HMP Wakefield, pedophile murderer Roy Whiting, 65, was stabbed by another prisoner.
Maudsley’s nephew Gavin (pictured) said in a documentary that he frequently visits the killer in Wakefield prison.
Maudsley’s two-room cell is made of perspex and has compressed cardboard furniture.
The sadistic killer spends every day in a Hannibal Lecter-style cell, sleeping on a concrete slab and using a toilet and sink bolted to the floor.
Like his namesake, in the 1991 Hollywood blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs, guards who knew Maudsley describe him as exceptionally intelligent, with a love of classical music, poetry and art.
Kevin, who is the only person who visits Maudsley along with his brother Paul and nephew Gavin, said he spends his days reading books about chess and then playing against himself.
He said: “He likes chess more.” He has books about it, he only reads books about chess. That’s how he is now.
‘He has his hour outside and then comes back in.
‘He plays against himself. I really don’t know how he does it.
“He can go to the gym but he can’t do anything because his knees are giving out.”
Maudsley was born in Toxteth, Liverpool in 1953 and was the fourth child of a local lorry driver.
But he had an unhappy start to life and was taken in at a young age with his two brothers and sister after it was discovered they were victims of “parental neglect”.
After several years in care, Maudsley and her siblings returned to live with their parents, but there they were brutally beaten and suffered “physical abuse,” her brother said.
During his final murder trial in 1979, the court heard that during his violent rages, Maudsley believed his victims were his parents.
He said: ‘When I kill, I think I have my parents in mind. If I had killed my parents in 1970, none of these people would have had to die. If he had killed them, then he would be walking around as a free man without a care in the world.
Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974, aged 21, after fleeing to London to work as a prostitute when he was 16.
He brutally murdered pedophile John Farrell in Wood Green after showing photographs of children he had sexually abused.
After the murder, he turned himself in to the police and immediately confessed to his crime.
Maudsley was sent to Broadmoor Hospital, home to some of Britain’s most violent criminals, after he was deemed unfit to stand trial.
Retired prison officer Neil Samworth has revealed why he believes Maudsley (pictured) should no longer be kept in solitary confinement.
Maudsley (pictured) was last photographed more than 40 years ago for a documentary about his life in prison.
Maudsley was sent to HMP Wakefield (pictured), nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’, after being found guilty of manslaughter.
At Broadmoor he was a “model” prisoner until 1977, when he and fellow inmate David Cheeseman were locked in a cell with child molester David Francis.
After a gruesome nine-hour torture, the callous couple hung Francisco’s lifeless body for prison guards to see.
According to a guard, the man was discovered with his head “open like a boiled egg,” with a spoon hanging from it and part of his brain missing.
Maudsley was then sent to HMP Wakefield, nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’, after being found guilty of manslaughter.
In Wakefield in 1978 Maudsley strangled and stabbed Salney Darwood, 46, who had been jailed for killing his wife.
He hid Darwood’s body under the bed before sneaking into the cell of pedophile Bill Roberts, 56, who had sexually abused a seven-year-old girl.
He stabbed Roberts, slashed his skull with a makeshift dagger and slammed his head against the wall.
Only then was the brutal murderer of ‘Hannibal’ sentenced to life in prison.
In 2000, Maudsley launched a legal action in court asking to be allowed to die.
He wrote a letter asking: ‘What’s the point of keeping me locked up 23 hours a day?
‘Why even bother feeding me and giving me an hour of exercise a day? Who am I really a risk to?
In the letter he described that his current treatment and confinement had led him to expect a “psychological breakdown”, mental illness and “probable suicide”.
Maudsley is kept separate from other inmates inside Wakefield (pictured) after he killed three people while serving time for murder.
HMP Wakefield (pictured) houses some of Britain’s most dangerous murderers and inmates
He went on to ask why he couldn’t have a pet parakeet, promising to love it and “not eat it.”
Also questioning why he couldn’t have a television to ‘see the world’ and get information or music tapes.
He ended the letter by saying: “If the Prison Service says no, then I ask for a simple cyanide capsule which I will gladly accept and Robert John Maudsley’s problem can be resolved easily and quickly.”
Despite his depraved crimes, a veteran prison officer who has guarded some of Britain’s most dangerous men told MailOnline that Maudsley should be released from solitary confinement.
Neil Samworth, who worked at HMP Strangeways in Manchester for more than a decade, said: “I think it’s wrong the way he’s been treated. “He’s in total isolation and it’s not fair.
He added: “I believe his crimes are now historic and he poses no real danger to others.” He’s a bit like Charlie Bronson.
“Yes, he has had many fights in the past, but he is an old man now.”