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Britain’s most violent lag Charles Bronson publishes book full of poems
BRITAIN’S most violent lag Charles Bronson has published a poetry book.
Bronson, 67, has spent 33 of his 45 years inside in solitary confinement after violent attacks.
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In Words Inside and Out, he writes of jails: “Broadmoor was a gas, Rampton a hole; Parkhurst was a trap, that’s where I lost my soul.”
Another poem brands Soham killer Ian Huntley and Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe “a disgrace to the human race”.
Bronson says the virus battle means lags are fed in cells at HMP Woodhill, in Milton Keynes.
The foreword says: “Enjoy this book, if not . . . sling it on the fire.”
Co-writer Steve Wraith, a pal of 20 years, said: “These poems show a different side to him.”
Bronson, who now uses the name Charles Salvador, was first sentenced to seven years in jail over an armed robbery in 1974.
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That was extended after he attacked a fellow prisoner and again after a rooftop protest.
After a brief stint of freedom, he was found guilty of intent to robbery and sentenced to eight years in 1992.
That was extended for attacks inside and he was given a life sentence after kidnapping a prison teacher in 1999.
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