MOTHER'S MERCY
I’m Charles Bronson’s mum & here’s where it all went wrong for the notorious lag… his life of crime started young
THE mum of the UK's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has said she spotted the warning signs when he was a child.
Bronson, infamous with the country's prison system, has carried out a string of horrendous attacks on inmates and officers.
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The Luton man has spent around 50 years in the system and is now hoping to be considered for release at a parole hearing.
His mum Eira Peterson has told Channel 4, Bronson: Fit to be Freed? how she spotted the warning signs when he began stealing as a child.
She said: "I remember going in the bedroom one day and he had pencils and little notebooks."
She said she knew he had stolen them.
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When her son confessed to stealing the items, she confiscated them from him.
Despite showing signs from early on, Eira said Bronson has always been the "perfect son to me".
Eira added her husband Joe Peterson had a quick temper and would sometimes hit men in the pub because he would become jealous.
She said her husband's behaviour could have been the reason Bronson turned out the way he did.
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The documentary includes footage recorded secretly by Bronson's long-lost son George Bamby-Salvador.
The pair have been preparing to fight for his release.
George said to his dad : "So, are you behaving yourself?"
The father and son discuss his parole hearing and Bronson acknowledges he has a chequered past.
He said: "I've got a horrible, nasty, vicious, violent past."
But he adds: "I've never killed anyone. I've never harmed a woman child, I've never harmed a child."
He's now hoping to convince a parole hearing on March 6 that he is a “man of peace”.
Bronson discovered his long-lost son through DNA testing back in 2017.
George has paid visits to Bronson ever since.
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