Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson will make his latest bid for freedom after nearly 50 years behind bars at a public parole hearing starting today.
The Parole Board review of one of the UK’s longest serving inmates to decide whether he should remain behind bars begins today, making him the second inmate in UK legal history to have his case heard in public.
Dubbed ‘Britain’s most violent prisoner’, Bronson – who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 after the artist Salvador Dali, has been in prison for much of the last 50 years, often spending time in solitary confinement or specialist units.
But he will argue that, at 70, he is a reformed character, a ‘born-again artist’ who — in his own characteristically theatrical words — is more likely to be found carrying a ‘sawn-off paintbrush’ than a ‘sawn-off shotgun’ now that he is in his dotage.
Members of the public and the press will be able to observe the proceedings today and on Wednesday via a live stream, with Bronson…
