Charles Bronson today told a parole board how he ‘greased up with Lurpak’ before a fight in jail and won £1,500 last year on bets as he boasted: ‘There’s nothing better than wrapping a governor up like a Christmas turkey’
Charles Bronson today told a parole board how he ‘greased up with Lurpak’ before a fight in jail and won £1,500 last year on bets as he boasted: ‘There’s nothing better than wrapping a governor up like a Christmas turkey’.
Known as ‘Britain’s most violent prisoner’, Bronson was imprisoned for seven years in 1974 after being convicted of armed robbery and was finally given a life sentence for kidnapping prison teacher Phil Danielson in 1999.
He is the second inmate in UK legal history to have his parole hearing held in public .
Questioned about several incidents behind bars a few years ago, Bronson, 70, said: ‘I love a rumble.What man doesn’t?’
Describing one fight, in which the parole review was told he stripped naked and ‘greased up’, he said: takasifun ‘I took half a tub of Lurpak with me, stripped off and had the rumble of my life. It was f****** brilliant.’
But Bronson insisted he was now a changed man, and begged officials to release him for the sake of his 95-year-old mother, whom he called ‘the duchess’.
Asked what he would do if someone tried to throw a punch at him outside jail to ‘make a name for themselves’, he claimed he would say: ‘Come on mate.There’s a cafe over there, let’s go and have a cup of tea.’
Charles Bronson in a court sketch during his parole board hearing today
Today, Bronson said he had decided to change his surname to Salvador in 2014 because ‘Salvador means man of peace’ after previously being ‘a horrible person’ who ‘couldn’t stop taking hostages’.
Referring to Mr Danielson, the prison art teacher who he held in his cell for three days in 2014, he said he told him: ‘You’ve been my best hostage, you’re the only one who hasn’t sh** himself.’
Bronson told the hearing that the teacher had taken objection to a health and safety poster the prisoner created about the risk of Aids.The staff member misunderstood it as ‘having a pop at the gays’.
He said at the time the prison wing where he was held was ‘cold, empty and f****** brutal’, whereas now ‘things are too easy. I’ve got a telly in my cell, I can’t even believe it’.
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