A British serial killer who has been locked up for nearly 50 years is believed to be the world record holder for the most time spent in solitary confinement.
Robert Mawdsley has lived out his days for the past 45 years alone in a glass prison cell in West Yorkshire after murdering three inmates, The Mirror reports.
The 70-year-old killer was first locked up aged 21, in 1974, for killing child predator John Farrell.
After being deemed unfit to stand trial, Mawdsley was sent to Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Liverpool, where he took an inmate hostage and stabbed him to death with a razor blade in 1977.
After being convicted of manslaughter for the Broadmoor murders, Mawdsley was transferred to Wakefield prison in 1978, where he killed two more inmates, landing himself in a box.
The bloodthirsty criminal had spent his days underground in a custom-built 18ft by 15ft glass cage cell, complete with bulletproof windows and concrete slabs for beds, along with tables and chairs made from compressed cardboard , the outlet is reported.
Robert Mawdsley has spent 45 years in solitary confinement at West Yorkshire’s Wakefield prison, which is considered a world record. PA image via Getty Images Mawdsley was first locked up in 1974 after he killed child predator John Farrell. PA image via Getty Images
The killer’s nephew Gavin Mawdsley told Channel 5’s “Evil Behind Bars” if his uncle had not been jailed, he would have continued to kill child sex offenders in prison.
“[If you] put him with rapists and pedophiles, I know because he told us, he would kill as many pedophiles as possible,” Gavin Mawdsley said. “I don’t condone what he did, but… the people he killed were bad people.”
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson confirmed to The Mirror “there is no solitary confinement in our prison system.”
Mawdsley killed three prisoners during his first four years in the ring, including two in Wakefield that landed him in solitary confinement. HMP Wakefield
“Some offenders will be isolated if they pose a risk to others. They are allowed daily outdoor time, visits, phone calls, and access to legal advice and medical treatment like everyone else,” the spokesperson said.
Albert Woodfox, who is being held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on armed robbery charges, was previously thought to hold the world record for solitary confinement, at the age of 43.
Woodfox was placed in solitary confinement after he was convicted of murdering corrections officer Brent Miller in 1972, which he continued to deny after his release in 2016 and his death in 2022.
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