Robert Maudslei

Early life Robert Maudsley was the fourth of 12 children, born in Speke, Liverpool. He spent his early years in a Catholic orphanage in Crosby, with his three older siblings. At the age of eight, Maudsley and his three older siblings were retrieved by their parents. Robert was subjected to routine physical abuse from his father until he was removed from their care by social services.

Murders In 1974, locked themselves in a cell with a third patient, David Francis, a convicted child molester. The attack was claimed to be in revenge for a "homosexual attack" on one of the friends of the two men. Maudsley invited Darwood to his cell, where he garroted and stabbed him before hiding his body under his bed. He then attempted to lure other prisoners into his cell, but they all refused. and that those are the people to whom he is a threat.

Solitary confinement

In 1983, Maudsley was deemed too dangerous for a normal cell. Prison authorities built a two-cell unit in the basement of Wakefield Prison. Due to his history of violence, when outside his cell, he was supervised by at least four prison officers whenever leaving his cell.

In 2003, Maudsley was moved to Wakefield Prison's Close Supervision Centre, which was built to house Britain's most dangerous inmates.

In March 2025, Maudsley began a hunger strike after his luxury items, such as a video game console, books, and a music system, were confiscated by prison guards. The following month, more than 50 years into his life sentence, after more than 40 years in solitary confinement, it was reported that he had been moved from Wakefield Prison to a Category A facility in HMP Whitemoor.