Incredible profile of UK serial killer of 4,Robert Maudsley,tortured martyr of UK society,courageously & brilliantly shares the TRUTH of his lifetime of societally inflicted torment,w/newspaper reporter,his SUPERIOR morality & humanity shines through
Joe1orbit
Okay folks, a new day is here, and it's time to get another Posting Spree
underway. As usual, I have a TON of interesting items all backed up, waiting to
be posted, and there is NO chance that I'll be able to get them all in. Oh
well, we do what we can, and I'll try to keep my commentaries on the somewhat
brief side, in an effort to at LEAST squeeze in 10 news items.
We begin in England, just like we did yesterday, only this time we have a
TRULY fascinating profile of a rather UNKNOWN serial killer of four, named
Robert Maudsley. I'm telling you, as I read these articles, my mind and SOUL,
dead as it is, LEPT out and EMBRACED the incredible superiority and courage of
this tortured victim-creation. How WONDERFUL to be able to immerse oneself in
this incredible life story, and how TERRIBLE to see and hear the DEPTHS of
INJUSTICE and SUFFERING that Robert, a TRULY Superior, insightful, brilliant,
soul-alive philosopher, continues to be subjected to.
I HONOR Robert's choice to speak out to the media and CONDEMN the
BRUTALIZATION, the INHUMANITY, with which he has been treated. 46 year old
Robert is one of only 26 UK prison inmates, who have been sentenced to Life in
prison with NO chance of ever getting released. Now, Robert is DEMANDING to be
treated as a HUMAN being, or else he says he'd rather be MURDERED by the State.
All he wants is to be treated as ANY human being in the 21st century deserves,
at the very least. His VOICE, as published in the letter excerpts below, is a
CRY of SANITY, in an INSANE society. In a SANE society a MILLION pepople in
England would rise up as ONE, together, and DEMAND that this tortured
child-victim, who has been UNJUSTLY TORMENTED by society for his ENTIRE life,
be FINALLY treated as a VICTIM, a victim worthy of LIMITLESS apology,
affection, understanding, support, and only BENEVOLENT, NEVER punitive,
treatment.
But no, instead, you EVIL creatures will do nothing, even if you READ the
articles, you will simply shrug your shoulders and continue to let your society
TORTURE this BRILLIANT philosopher, this COURAGEOUS man who is THOUSANDS of
times more moral and more WORTHY of benevolent treatment, than the VAST
majority of all you two-faced, law-abiding, societally enslaved, evil
hypocrites.
We get fascinating details of Robert's 4 murders, only the FIRST of which
took place OUTSIDE of prison/loony bin. But even more importantly, Robert
courageously talks about his childhood of TORTURE, torture that UK society is
100% RESPONSIBLE for and GUILTY of having inflicted upon him. This BRILLIANT
and courageous man has been TORTURED by his society, for his ENTIRE 46 years of
life, and has been condemned to CONTINUE to be tortured for the rest of his
lifetime. There is just NO limit to your EVIL, you pathetic creatures. You are
MEMBERS of society, and your society is limitlessly evil, as it CHOOSES to
INITIATE genocidal cycles of abuse and torture upon helpless children, and then
to DEMONIZE and continue to torture your own created victims, for the rest of
their lives.
I HONOR your MARTYRDOM, Robert. If there was ANY justice in the world, YOU
would have a thermonuclear bomb capable of destroying all of humanity, in your
hands, along with the launch codes, and YOU yourself would be asked to DECIDE
whether the human race DESERVES to continue to exist. You are ENTITLED to make
this decision, Robert, you ALONE, based upon the UNFORGIVABLE lifetime of
unjust torment that your society INITIATED against you when you were a BABY,
has inflicted inflicted and continues to inflict upon you.
How REMARKABLE that you CONTINUE to find the courage to EXPRESS the TRUTH,
Robert. To TELL your evil society and it's diseased agents/representatives, the
Truth. You are a SEER, you are the REAL "jesus christ". In a SANE society, you
would be worshipped, your WORDS and your writings would be treated as a genuine
"bible", a legitimate set of brilliant insights that DESERVE to be embraced by
all sane humans, as they FALL to their KNEES and BEG you to forgive both them
as individuals, and their society.
Robert is at Wakefield Prison in England. His inmate number is 467637. If I
COULD destroy the human race on your behalf Robert, the temptation to do so
would be overwhelming. But I guess all I can do is consider contacting you
directly, and offering up this public appeal that ALL Superior humans who read
this post, seriously consider finding out Robert's exact mailing address, and
writing to him, express to him the AFFECTION, SUPPORT, LOVE, that he has
DESERVED since the moment of his birth, and that has been EVILLY denied him,
for his entire life.
I will be posting a follow-up, which contains more info on Robert's writings,
since this text post is so long, I can't fit it all in. You can view incredible
PHOTOS of Robert, is tortured humanity on display, by going to
http://www.the-times.co.uk/ and click on the "Features" button, located
towards the bottom of the page.
Stay Strong, Robert!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 3/23/00 online edition of The Times Of
London newspaper:
March 23 2000
Damaged by a childhood in which he was brutally beaten by his father, Robert
Maudsley became one of Britain's most notorious killers. Despite clear evidence
that he is severely disturbed, under British law he is deemed untreatable. He
has spent the past 23 years in solitary confinement. Now, in letters to Times
journalist Eve-Ann Prentice, he says he would rather die than continue to be
"buried alive"
Maudsley says of his childhood: "All I can
remember is the beatings and being locked
in my room for weeks at a time"
Out of sight, out of mind
A small boy with a pudding-basin haircut and serious eyes stares into the
camera as he squats on the steps of a tenement in Liverpool in the late 1950s.
The child's hands, clasped on grubby knees, would in later life become skilled
in using a garrotte. For they are the hands of the man who is one of Britain's
most notorious serial killers, Robert Maudsley.
Maudsley was convicted of manslaughter after his first killing, and sent to
Broadsmoor. There he murdered a fellow patient, and was sent to Wakefield
where, after killing two prisoners, he was placed in unremitting solitary
confinement. He has languished for nearly 25 years in a specially built cell at
Wakefield prison known as The Cage.
He remains there, despite the publication this week of a report from the Chief
Inspector of Prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham, which condemns one other jail -
Woodhill, near Milton Keynes - for keeping prisoners under similar solitary
conditions for more than 14 days. Any longer is, according to the report, a
"direct breach of prison rules". Yet 14 days is insignificant compared with the
decades Maudsley has spent in isolation.
Today, as Maudsley begins yet another day buried in the farthest recesses of
the prison system, he gives The Times a glimpse of his life and appeals for an
end to his exile. It is the first time he has had a voice in the outside world
for nearly 20 years.
No matter how distasteful, it is a voice to which we should listen. Robert
Maudsley was a fearful, abused but well-behaved child who grew up to become a
disturbed adolescent and then a murderer. At the age of 24 he was deemed - by
psychiatric reports - to be untreatable.
What happens to the state of mind of an already unbalanced person when he is
kept in solitary confinement for 23 years?
"Are we all not products of our environment?" he says in letters sent to me
from his cell. "Wakefield Prison authorities perceive me as a problem, their
solution to that problem to date has been to . . . bury me alive, the cage
ultimately for them being my concrete coffin".
On a normal day Maudsley's only regular contact is with the prison doctor,
seven warders and a doghandler. "I am left to stagnate; vegetate; and to
regress; left to confront my solitary head-on, with people who have eyes but
don't see, and who have ears but don't hear, who have mouths but don't speak;
consequently I too am left with no voice, nowhere to turn to but inward . . ."
he writes.
As the Government considers changing the way it copes with such convicts,
Maudsley's case has become the focus of searching questions. Should anyone be
held in solitary confinement in perpetuity? Or should the criminally dangerous
be sent to secure hospitals, such as Broadmoor, which are equipped not only to
treat them but also to let them engage in human contact?
While it is right that Maudsley has been permanently removed from society, is
it right that he should also be denied treatment that might encourage him to
have some form of moral, spiritual and psychological growth?
No one suggests he should be released. But he is trapped in a Catch 22
situation; had he been diagnosed as someone who would respond to psychiatric
help, he could have been held in hospital under the 1983 Mental Health Act
(which is now being redrafted). But because doctors said he was suffering from
an "untreatable" severe personality disorder, he must be held in prison
instead, alone, and with no limit on his sentence.
In his letters to The Times, Robert Maudsley says he would rather commit
suicide than continue to live as he does. If certain comforts are not provided,
he says, "then I ask for a simple cyanide capsule which I shall willingly take
and the problem of Robert John Maudsley can easily and swiftly be resolved".
Maudsley's "untreatable" personality defect is more commonly described as a
pyschopathic disorder, a condition defined by the Mental Health Act as "a
persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including significant
impairment of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously
irresponsible conduct."
His monstrous behaviour was precipitated by an extraordinarily harsh
upbringing. Even the photograph of Maudsley when he was a child, taken in 1959
when he was seven, was no picture of unsullied innocence. The unsmiling
expression hints at the beatings he was already receiving at the hands of his
father.
Neglected and mistreated, the seeds of horror were probably already being sown.
He was born on June 26, 1953, one of 12 children of a Liverpool lorry driver,
also called Robert, who is dead, and his wife, Jean. In March 1955, when Robert
Maudsley Jr was 21 months old, he was taken into local authority care, along
with two brothers and an elder sister, Brenda, because they were suffering from
"parental neglect".
The young Robert spent most of his infancy at Nazareth House, a Roman Catholic
orphanage run by nuns in Crosby, Liverpool. He left on June 22, 1962 and was
placed in the care of Eileen Holgate of the Children's Department of Liverpool
City Council. But occasionally he and the other children were allowed to go
back to their parents for "trial periods", and it was during these stays at the
now demolished tenement building in Speke that Maudsley suffered mental and
physical abuse at the hands of a father he barely knew.
A copy of one of the letters the multiple killer has sent to Eve-Ann Prentice
One of the nuns who was at Nazareth House remembers the family well. Sister
Barbara, now at Nazareth House in Hammersmith, London, says: "I never thought
he was troublesome or awkward. I certainly don't remember him as insane. If
anything, he was better behaved than many. With some of the boys you would
think 'Oh, they are going to be so and sos', but not him. I have known many
worse, that is for sure."
Sister Barbara, now 83, mostly came into contact with the Maudsley children
when she worked in the dining room at the children's home. "I had no idea of
the trouble they had at home. I am sad to hear what has become of him and I
hope he gets help. Give him my best regards and tell him I am praying for him."
There were about 90 children at Nazareth House, most of whom came from homes
beset by violence, sickness or unemployment. Still, the Maudsley children were
unusual in that they received few visits from their family. Much later,
Robert's mother would admit that her husband had used a "heavy hand" with
Robert.
Maudsley's descent into the annals of criminal legend began when he appeared in
court in Liverpool on theft and burglary charges at the age of 16. Shortly
afterwards, he started moving round the country taking up odd jobs, including a
spell as a petrol pump attendant. There was an interlude on the Isle of Man
before he headed for London.
He was briefly admitted to a mental hospital after taking a drugs overdose, and
in March 1974, soon after his release, he killed his first victim - a
homosexual called John Farrell. Court records say that Maudsley was working as
a male prostitute at the time and that he killed Farrell in Wood Green, North
London, in order to rob him and buy drugs.
After the killing he gave himself up to police, was convicted of manslaughter
on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and sent to Broadmoor.
In September 1976 Maudsley and a fellow Broadmoor patient, David Francis,
seized another inmate and held him hostage for 16 hours. During the siege they
threatened to gouge out the eyes of their captive.
Eight months later it was the turn of David Francis to be Maudsley's victim.
With another Broadmoor inmate, he tortured and then garrotted his former
accomplice.
At Reading Crown Court, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Psychiatric
reports at that time deemed him to be untreatable. The murder conviction
consigned him to the criminal justice system rather than enabling him to remain
a detainee under the Mental Health Act. And still the killing went on.
In July 1978, four months after being sent to Wakefield, Maudsley killed two
men in one afternoon. In a bizarre ritual, he first made two paper coffins and
placed clippings of human hair inside them. Then he stabbed and killed Salney
Darwood, a fellow lifer who had been giving Maudsley French lessons.
"During the course of the struggle, Maudsley took a length of cord from his
pocket and he garrotted this man by tying a ligature tightly round his neck,"
Barry Mortimer, QC, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court during the subsequent
murder trial in 1979. "He then put the body under the bed, washed his hands of
blood, put the knife back into his waistband and went out on exercise as if
nothing had happened."
After returning to his prison landing, Maudsley launched an attack on another
prisoner, William Roberts, stabbing him in the stomach, chest and skull as he
lay on his bed in his cell.
"He caused some fearful violence to the side of his head, probably by banging
his head against the wall," Mr Mortimer told the murder trial. According to
apocryphal prison legend, Maudsley then ate part of his victim's brain.
He has been held in almost perpetual solitary confinement ever since, with the
few attempts to rehabilitate him to mainstream prison life in Durham and
Parkhurst ending in failure.
Maudsley spends 23 hours of each day locked in his cell on Wakefield's F wing.
He is allowed out only to shower and to walk or to squat listlessly in a bleak,
high-walled yard. His table and chair are made of cardboard and he eats from
plastic plates with a plastic spoon. The bed, sink and lavatory are bolted to
the floor and he is said to spend his days writing interminable letters to
psychiatrists pleading to know why he is the way he is. Even his pen has been
doctored; he is permitted only a Biro refill because of the fear that he would
use a complete ballpoint to injure himself or others.
His letters to The Times give some insight to his state of mind. He indicates
that he is in contact with at least one of his brothers, Kevin, and that he has
had at least occasional sight of films on television or videotape. He implies
that he has little or no access to books, music or television and that even
postage stamps are hard to come by. He was able to write to me only because I
sent him stamped- addressed envelopes. A list of requests for everything from a
pet budgerigar to electronic games, intimates that he likes art and classical
music.
"Why can't I have a budgie instead of the flies and cockroaches and spiders I
currently have; I promise to love it and not eat it?" he writes.
"Why can't I have amazing pictures on my walls in solitary rather than the
dirty damp patches I currently have; why can't I possess or purchase postage
stamps so I can maintain contact with my family, friends; people who contact me
etc; why can't I have hand-held electronic games in my cell; why can't I have
toiletries? With the open toilet that blocks up here it certainly does smell
like a sewer."
Many would describe it as a hellish existence, but one that Maudsley has
brought on himself. The world had all but forgotten about him until last month,
when another notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson, was tried for taking a prison
teacher hostage. Bronson, who had spent some time in a neighbouring cell to
Maudsley, asked to call his fellow inmate as a witness to back his claims that
prison conditions had driven him to commit his crime.
Maudsley did not make the court appearance - the request to summon him from the
bowels of Wakefield jail was dismissed out of hand. But, just by mentioning his
name in court, Bronson was highlighting Maudsley's plight - the "cage" was
instantly compared to that of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
One former Wakefield prison officer I contacted says Maudsley is "of a
different breed". "He does not cause any trouble on the wing but his moral
balance is not like that of a normal person. He is a lunatic and dangerous.
People like him don't get enough exercise and this chips away at their very
existence."
The last time Maudsley was seen by the outside world was in 1982 when he
featured in a BBC television documentary on solitary confinement. Even then, at
29, he was among those who had spent the longest in isolation.
His shock of dark, shaggy hair framed a face with piercing eyes. It was hard
not to stare at his teeth - the upper incisors set square and strong, the lower
teeth oddly small, sharp and stained.
A towering 6ft 2in, he spoke with a soft almost lisping Liverpudlian accent and
complained that he was beginning to suffer speech impediments because of his
lack of human contact. Sitting in his cell, he spoke about his violent past and
grim future.
He lived with constant memories of his upbringing, he said. "All I can remember
of my childhood is the beatings and being locked in my room for weeks at a
time. Once I was locked in the room for six months and my father only opened
the door to come in and beat me, four or six times a day depending on how he
was disposed. He used to hit me with sticks or rods and once he bust a 2.2 air
rifle over my back."
Maudsley: "All I have to look forward to is psychological breakdown"
Maudsley's father is now dead, and his mother has moved to the Huyton area of
Liverpool. She refuses to discuss her son today but in 1979, after his trial
for the double murder in Wakefield jail, Mrs Maudsley told the Yorkshire Post
reporter Dave Bruce: "I don't think Bob has any love for his father because he
hit him and Bob got the blame for everything - rightly or wrongly. His father
was heavy with him."
Maudsley's brother Paul, a capstan-fitter who now lives in Bootle, said after
the 1979 trial: "Our backgrounds are the same but it affected him worse. Maybe
I have the stronger character. It is the old story of the survival of the
fittest. Those days still affect me. I don't seem to trust anyone; I don't like
to show my feelings towards anyone, just in case they hurt me.
"It's funny, though, Bob was the original gentle giant. If there was any
fighting to be done when we were kids it was always me, never Bob."
Paul Maudsley went on: "He needs treatment. The only place he can receive the
correct type of treatment is in a secure hospital. Prison is not the right
place for him."
Maudsley's last legal challenge was in 1983, when he appealed to the European
Commission for the right to end his solitary confinement on the grounds that it
constituted "cruel and unusual punishment". However, the case, which was
brought with the help of human rights campaigner and Liberal Democrat peer,
Lord Avebury, was ruled inadmissible.
At the time, Lord Avebury exchanged many letters with Maudsley. He remembers
that they seemed to indicate a deeply disturbed mind, he says, probably largely
as a result of a tortured childhood.
The peer has not heard from Maudsley since the European Commission for Human
Rights (which preceded the Court of Human Rights) ruled the case inadmissible.
"In his letters he used to describe his living conditions, what his cell was
like and that sort of thing," says Lord Avebury. "How did I feel? I argue that
however dangerous he may be, there are other people who are equally dangerous
who are treated in units or allowed more association with others."
Last week the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee issued a report which
appeared to support a case for trying to provide help for people such as
Maudsley rather than classifying them as "untreatable".
MPs acknowledged the ongoing debate within medical circles over whether
personality disorders were "treatable", but said they were "unconvinced" that
such disorders could not be "managed".
"We believe that people suffering from the disorder deserve professional care
and support in an appropriate environment to help them to manage their illness
and lead as normal a life as possible," the report asserted.
Dr Clive Meux who was a psychiatrist at Broadmoor for ten years says:
"Psychopath is no longer a clinical term. Nowadays it is a word used by some
newspapers to describe someone who is broadly seen as evil, dangerous and
nasty."
The problem for offenders such as Maudsley, he explains, is that they cannot be
treated in a secure psychiatric unit once they are deemed to be untreatable.
This holds true despite the fact that treatment "doesn't have to be very active
treatment; it can be treatment used to prevent deterioration".
People regarded by society as psychopaths are "a hugely heterogeneous group,"
Dr Meux adds. "It would be nice to say they all have low brows and big ears,
but many have strengths as well as weaknesses. However, they are likely to have
serious problems communicating with others, to be impulsive, dangerous, suffer
mood liability and have difficulty in trusting people. They often have problems
with self-esteem and may have a history of illegal drug use or abuse.
"Many have extraordinarily hard family backgrounds. They have seen Dad bashing
Mum and may have been sexually and physically abused as children. I don't say
you could not get someone like this from a stable and secure family background,
but I have never seen one."
However, according to Dr Meux, who is now consultant forensic psychiatrist at
another secure unit, the Oxford Clinic in Oxford, no one is beyond the pale. "I
don't write anyone off. If someone has a mental disorder, then as a
psychiatrist I have a duty to treat them."
Dr Meux does accept that it would be impossible to empty prisons of all
prisoners with severe personality disorders, but he believes there should be
closer liaison between jails and psychiatric hospitals.
Certainly patients in Broadmoor have far more association with other people
than do prisoners held in segregation units. Professor Pamela Taylor, a
psychiatrist at Broadmoor, says: "There is psychiatric treatment available at
some prisons, but it tends to be regime-oriented. In Broadmoor, it is more
individual-based.
"People in Broadmoor are hardly ever held in solitary confinement, and if they
are it is for brief periods, hours or at most a couple of days."
How does Broadmoor manage to allow inmates to mix with one another? Contact is
even allowed between men and women, albeit on a strictly formal and regulated
basis.
"Training, training, training," says Professor Taylor. "The number of violent
incidents is remarkably small considering at least a quarter of the intake have
killed somebody. A crucial aspect of the training is in the understanding of
the patient, in order to spot conflicts building up and to defuse them before
they happen."
A prisoners' help group, Unlock, led by former offenders who have spent time in
solitary themselves. Bobby Cummines, deputy chief executive of Unlock, has some
idea of what life is like for Maudsley. As a prisoner in Albany jail on the
Isle of Wight, he was placed in solitary confinement after threatening prison
staff.
"There is no human contact whatsoever because the officers ignore you. The food
is normally cold because you get it after everyone else has finished. It has
been known for the prison officers to urinate on your food, but what are you
going to do? Who are you going to complain to?
"Basically it is a war of attrition - you and them. We call being put in
solitary the 'ghost train' because you can be moved around and no one is told
where you are, not even your family. I was there just 30 days, but the only way
I held it together was by doing yoga.
"You don't bother to talk to the screws because, if you do, they only wind you
up. You are really, really on your own. People get suicidal. It is barbaric. If
anyone treated an animal like this, they would be locked up."
His thoughts echo those of Freddy Apfel, Maudsley's solicitor in 1979, who
prophesied at the close of the court case: "He will be caged like an animal for
the rest of his life unless efforts are made to treat him."
Maudsley's current solicitor, Simon Creighton, has never met his client. They
communicate by letter and occasional telephone call.
He points out that although Maudsley has been held in solitary confinement for
more than 20 years, "no attempt has been made to examine the effects that this
has had upon him or to try and put in place some form of long-term planning for
his future treatment and management".
It is, he says, an aberration of prison rules, which impose a legal obligation
on the prison service "to provide treatment and training for prisoners to
encourage them to lead a good and useful life".
"It is shocking that these statutory obligations are being ignored and that the
authorities are quite content to literally see my client rot in prison," Mr
Creighton adds. "This case raises fundamental issues about the purpose of
imprisonment and the extent to which the prison authorities are content to
waste public money by simply containing prisoners indefinitely in highly secure
conditions at enormous expense to the taxpayer rather than to look for
long-term solutions."
Robert Maudsley's landscape remains bleak. At 46 he has now spent nearly half
his life in the barest of rooms. Its single window is reportedly six feet from
the floor and filled with opaque frosted glass. His view of the outside world
is limited to a centimetre of sky, seen through a ventilation hole.
No matter how repulsive his crimes, is such incarceration an intelligent means
of dealing with him?
Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform, says: "We ought to
recognise that people who are said to be not treatable are bound to get worse
if they are kept in prison. There ought to be some way that dangerous people
can be held in a humane way."
David Shaw, the Governor of Wakefield prison, declined to speak to me on the
phone, and finally replied in writing to my questions about Maudsley's living
conditions. He appears to imply that Maudsley has refused to co-operate in
being reassessed: "As to my views on long-term solitary confinement of
prisoners I would simply say that my job as Governor is to manage the risk
presented by prisoners. In order to assess either reduction or increase in the
level of risk, it is necessary to carry out continuing risk assessments.
"Where any prisoner totally refuses to co-operate with the process of
assessment, I am not able to say that the risk presented has diminished and
therefore in those circumstances the prisoner will be managed in accordance
with the level of risk presented when last assessed," he wrote.
In 1979 Freddy Apfel noted the remarks of a high-ranking prison officer: "Of
all the prisoners I have interviewed in almost three years at Wakefield, this
man gives me the most cause for concern . . . what is this man doing in the
prison system?'"
More than two decades on, that question remains unanswered.
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Here you go folks, more of the DIRECT QUOTES of Robert Maudsley, one of the
most courageous and eloquent spokesmen for the COMMUNITY of worldwide societal
torture victim-creations, that I have EVER had the pleasure to read. Robert's
brilliant insights and personal courage, as expressed, are truly HEARTBREAKING
in their philosophical revelations, as well as in the PERSONAL revelations of
heartfelt True Reality that Robert chooses to grace his UNDESERVING readership
with.
In a SANE society, the INSANE 'bible' and it's deranged myths, would be
BURNED and DESTROYED, and a TRUE SEER, a TRUE victim, a person who has suffered
enough to have truly earned the title of seer and saint, Robert Maudsley, would
be decreed the CLOSEST living thing to a "god", that exists.
Just READ Robert's words. Each sentence a Superior expression of personal
Truth, truth that was CARVED into the mind, heart, and soul of this torture
victim, by the LIMITLESSLY evil society he was born into and enslaved by, and
the LIFETIME of torture that he has been subjected to, and TODAY, right NOW,
this very DAY, he CONTINUES to be subjected to, as you diseased hypocrites sit
on your hands and do NOTHING, remaining LOYAL and INSANE members of your
limitlessly EVIL societies.
You WILL be AVENGED, Robert, that is a CERTAINTY. But NOTHING and nobody can
replace your precious and unique LIFE, the Martyrhood that you have been
subjected to. What you write below are WORDS. Brilliant and courageous words,
words from the depths of your soul, that sing out in justified RAGE and
OUTRAGE, but still only words. You are a PERSON, Robert. You are a victim of
the greatest atrocity imaginable, an atrocity that YOUR society, with absolute
and unrelenting MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, chose and CONTINUES to choose today, to
inflict upon you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Robert, for choosing
to grace the world with your courage, morality, and to SHARE your Superiority,
with each and every one of us who reads your writings and life story. IF there
WAS such a thing as "god", YOU would BE God. Only a Martyr who has suffered as
much as you have, and yet retained the courage to express the Truths you have,
at age 46, could possibly be worthy of becoming a "god". You are in reality
MORE than a god, you are the PERFECT example of an ULTIMATE Martyr, created by
a truly diseased society, PROVING how limitlessly evil and unworthy of
existence, the entire human race as a whole, is.
Stay Strong, Robert!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 3/23/00 online edition of The Times Of
London newspaper:
March 23 2000
Extracts from letters by Robert Maudsley to Eve-Ann Prentice
"Newspapers have labelled me Britain's Hannibal Lecter"
'I am left to stagnate and regress'
Hopelessness
"HOW DID I find myself in permanent solitary confinement at Wakefield? I first
killed a man outside and found myself in Broadmoor. I then killed a fellow
patient at Broadmoor and eventually found my way to Wakefield, where I killed
two fellow inmates.
It is on record that I served numerous periods of solitary confinement at
Broadmoor prior to my killing a fellow patient; it is also on record I
underwent a long period of solitary confinement in various prisons prior to my
arrival at Wakefield and placement on normal location; at no time in Broadmoor
or those prisons did I receive any kind of psychological or psychiatric
assistance or help.
Numerous national newspapers and tabloids have labelled me 'Britain's own
Hannibal Lecter' etc, all very sensational no doubt, and I have received
numerous letters from people over the years who have watched this film Silence
of the Lambs and who believe it is a genuine portrayal of my life story; they
are of course entitled to their beliefs, however, a more accurate portrayal
would be a film called Murder In The First.
I mention this because an important question for these people to ask would be;
to what extent my conditions and environment and treatment at Broadmoor and HMP
Wakefield played in causing me to react in such a savage manner?
As you know I don't see any psychologists nor any psychiatrists currently; it
seems Wakefield is happy to place me in permanent solitary confinement after
killing two of its prisoners; actually all Wakefield has sought to do since
1978 is to demonise me.
Are we all not products of our environment, yourself, Ms Prentice, and myself?
Do we all not form our opinions, beliefs, etc, from how we perceive that
environment? Wakefield Prison authorities perceive me as a problem; their
solution to that problem to date has been in effect to bury me alive, the cage
ultimately for them being my concrete coffin, but is that the final solution?
What purpose is being served by keeping me locked up 23 hours a day, why even
bother to feed me and to give me one hour's exercise a day, month and year, yet
not allow me to talk to any other inmates via their windows? Who am I actually
a risk to?
Let me try to briefly answer that by saying I killed rapists, paedophiles and
sex offenders, no other type of person nor other type of offender, so my past
crimes strongly suggest this is the group most and solely at risk. Why is this?
I can say that yes I have been raped and yes I have been sexually abused by
such people and consequently I do detest these people enough to have killed
them in the past; so we have there circumstances from my childhood and
adolescence.
I have no previous convictions for killing prison officers and I have no
previous convictions for seriously wounding nor stabbing any prison officers,
and I cannot perceive nor can I imagine any situation in which this could
arise. I am left to stagnate; vegetate; and to regress; left to confront my
solitary head-on, with people who have eyes but don't see, and who have ears
but don't hear, who have mouths but don't speak.
Consequently I too am left with no voice, and the question I would ask of
everyone at Wakefield is why treat me the way they are?"
"Why can't I listen to beautiful classical music?"
Hopelessness
"Thank you for raising the issue of my mental and physical health... It may
interest you to know that I am not even allowed a telephone or to write to Mind
(the mental health association) nor the Samaritans, if only for someone to talk
to and express my concerns.
As far as I can see, as a consequence of my current treatment and confinement,
I feel that all I have to look forward to is indeed psychological breakdown,
mental illness and indeed probable suicide.
While inmates such as myself are provided with nothing from the prison
authorities, then accordingly we are free of any responsibility whatsoever, and
thus can choose to act however our consciences or subconsciences dictate,
opening up our feelings of anger; hate; frustration; and ultimately
hopelessness.
Inmates of Woodhill Control Unit are currently adequately demonstrating this on
a daily basis... will it take the possible death of other inmates or prison
officers in that unit before the authorities address such issues? I hope not.
Why can't I have a television in my cell to see the world and learn; why can't
I have any music tapes and listen to beautiful classical music?
Why can't I have a budgie instead of the flies and cockroaches and spiders I
currently have? I promise to love it and not eat it. Why can't I have amazing
pictures on my walls in solitary rather than the dirty damp patches I currently
have; why can't I possess or purchase postage stamps so I can maintain contact
with my family, friends; people who contact me?
If (the Prison Service) says no then I ask for a simple cyanide capsule which I
shall willingly take and the problem of Robert John Maudsley can easily and
swiftly be resolved. Thanking you."
The letter is signed RJ Maudsley, followed by his prison number 467637.
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The following appears courtesy of today's Reuters news wire:
Jailed killer says give me a budgie or cyanide
LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - British serial killer Robert Maudsley asked prison
authorities on Thursday to allow him some comforts such as a pet budgerigar or
let him kill himself with cyanide.
The four-times killer is in solitary confinement at a top security prison and
has been told by officials that he will never be released.
In letters to the Times newspaper, Maudsley asked the Prison Service to provide
him with a television, classical music tapes, pictures and a pet bird.
``If (the Prison Service) says no, then I ask for a simple cyanide capsule
which I shall willingly take and the problem of Robert John Maudsley can easily
and swiftly be resolved,'' he said.
The Prison Service dismissed his appeals. ``Prisoners live in decent conditions
but we have to bear in mind security and control restrictions,'' a spokesman
told Reuters.
Maudsley, 46, was convicted of his first killing in 1974 and went on to kill
three more people while in prison, the Times said.
He killed two of them in one afternoon earning the nickname ``Hannibal the
Cannibal'' after author Thomas Harris's evil literary creation Dr Hannibal
Lecter.
Maudsley has claimed his victims were rapists, paedophiles or sex offenders.
23:03 03-22-00
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The following appears courtesy of today's British Press Association news
wire:
Serial Killer Wants To Die Unless Prison Conditions Improve
From the Press Association
Thursday March 23, 2000
One of Britain's most notorious serial killers has begged the prison service to
relax the severe conditions of his punishment or let him kill himself with
cyanide.
In a series of letters to The Times, four-times killer Robert Maudsley -
nicknamed Hannibal the Cannibal - asks to be allowed classical music tapes, a
television, pictures and a budgerigar.
The 46-year-old Wakefield prisoner, who is one of the 26 offenders who have
been told they will never be released, spends 23 hours of each day locked away.
Maudsley, who has spent almost 25 years in solitary confinement, claims that no
purpose is served by preventing his talking to other inmates as he has only
ever murdered paedophiles, rapists and sex offenders.
He writes: "I have been raped and yes I have been sexually abused by such
people and consequently I do detest these people enough to have killed them in
the past."
Maudsley was convicted for his first killing in 1974 and sent to Broadmoor top
security hospital in Berkshire where he murdered a fellow patient three years
later.
The year after he killed two men in one day at Wakefield prison, and eventually
earned himself the nickname of Hannibal the Cannibal, after Thomas Harris's
fictional character,
A spokesman for the Prison Service said no-one was available for comment.
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The following appears courtesy of today's British Broadcasting Corporation
news wire:
Thursday, 23 March, 2000
Killer begs for budgie or suicide
Maudsley was deemed untreatable after a killing at Broadmoor
One of Britain's most notorious serial killers has written letters pleading for
the terms of his solitary confinement to be relaxed or to be allowed to commit
suicide.
In a series of letters to The Times, murderer Robert Maudsley asks for access
to classical music tapes, a television, pictures, toiletries and a budgerigar.
Maudsley, who has spent almost 25 years in solitary conditions, writes: "If
(the Prison Service) says no then I ask for a simple cyanide capsule which I
shall willingly take and the problem of Robert John Maudsley can easily and
swiftly be resolved."
"I am left to stagnate; vegetate; and to regress; left to confront my solitary
head-on with people who have eyes but don't see." Robert Maudsley
The 46-year-old is an inmate at Wakefield prison where he is housed in a
specially constructed cell called 'the cage'.
He is one of 26 offenders in Britain who have been told they will never be
released, and spends all but one hour a day locked up.
In 1974 Maudsley committed the first of what would eventually be four killings
and was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He was sent to Broadmoor high security hospital in Berkshire where he killed a
fellow inmate in 1977.
Psychiatrists deemed Maudsley untreatable and this time he was convicted of
murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the normal criminal justice
system.
He was sent to Wakefield where a year later he killed two fellow prisoners in
one day.
Budgie plea
Maudsley, likened by some newspapers to the character Hannibal Lecter from the
film Silence of the Lambs, asks why he is not allowed to even talk to other
inmates through a window.
He writes: "I am left to stagnate; vegetate; and to regress; left to confront
my solitary head-on with people who have eyes but don't see and who have ears
but don't hear, who have mouths but don't speak."
In another letter to The Times he asks: "Why can't I have a budgie instead of
the flies and cockroaches and spiders I currently have? I promise to love it
and not eat it."
The killer, who blames his traumatic and violent childhood for his crimes says
he only poses a risk to sex offenders.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said no-one was available for comment.