'Brain-Eating Cannibal' Spent Christmas Locked in Glass Box as UK's Most Dangerous Inmate - The Mirror

The UK’s most dangerous criminal who's Christmases locked in a glass box

Robert Maudsley, who killed four men, was held in a bulletproof glass cell in the basement of HMP Wakefield until earlier this year.

'Brain-eating cannibal' spent Christmas locked in glass box as UK's most dangerous inmate - The Mirror

Robert Maudsley killed four men - all of which he has said were rapists, paedophiles or sex offenders. Up until April 2025, he had been housed in a specially-built glass prison cell in solitary confinement

‘Brain-eating cannibal’ spent Christmas locked in glass box as UK’s most dangerous inmate

Robert Maudsley killed four men – all of which he has said were rapists, paedophiles or sex offenders. Up until April 2025, he had been housed in a specially-built glass prison cell in solitary confinement Robert Maudsley, 72, has earned a number of gruesome nicknames over the years; ‘Blue’ on account of the colour of his first victim’s face as he slowly strangled him, and ‘Spoons’, a gruesome reference to another killing where he left a spoon s…