'Britain’s most violent prisoner' Charles Bronson, 70, tells parole hearing he is “almost an angel now”
Addressing his time at Woodhill, he said: "I've had four years here now, I think I've outstayed my welcome.""When I'm in my cell and I've got a bad letter, or something's happened, or someone has been nasty or whatever, I can sit in my cell now and switch off, and go into myself with deep breathing.
Asked about an incident in 2015 when he threw his own faeces at another prisoner, Bronson claimed the inmate had killed four people and had insulted him, calling him an OAP and a nobody, and threatened to stab him.Dubbed one of Britain's most violent offenders, Bronson, who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 after the artist Salvador Dali, has been in prison for much of the last 50 years, often spending time in solitary confinement or specialist units.
"I've got a horrible, nasty, vicious, violent past I've never killed anyone, I've never harmed a woman, never harmed a child," he said. Bronson continued: "The system have labelled me for so many years untameable, untreatable, unpredictable, dangerous, blah, blah, blah. I've had every label you can think of.
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