What the UK’s most dangerous killer kept in box will eat for Christmas dinner

Killer Robert Maudsley has spent the last 50 Christmases in a cell – and now precisely what he’ll get to eat on the big day this year has been revealed.

Known as Britain’s most dangerous killer, he killed four people over the course of four years and at age 71, Maudsley remains in Wakefield prison, reportedly kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day.

Born in 1953 in Liverpool, Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974 – John Farrell who sexually abused children. Three years later, Maudsley and another prisoner killed child molester David Francis in Broadmoor Hospital.

After being sent to HMP Wakefield, he killed two more inmates. Maudsley was then, in total, convicted of three counts of murder and one count of manslaughter. Following this, he was classified as too dangerous to be housed with other prisoners which led to the construction of his current cell.

Despite the circumstances, the killer, like every other inmate, will be entitled to a full Christmas dinner. According to prison documents, this is what will be on the menu:

• Vegan Schnitzels
• Vegetarian Peppered Veg Pie
• Sliced Turkey
• Half Roast Chicken
• Halal Half Roast Chicken
• Roast/New Potatoes
• Carrots & Sprouts
• Pigs in Blankets
• Christmas Pudding
• White Sauce Vegan Christmas Pudding
• White Sauce Apple

Maudsley will be spending December 25 alone in his underground glass cell. The room features bulletproof windows, a table and chair made from compressed cardboard, a toilet and sink bolted to the floor and a door with a small slot at the bottom for food delivery. In 2021, his appeal to spend Christmas with other inmates was denied.

According to reports by the Mirror, the killer had expressed a desire to want “to spend Christmas in the presence of other humans” but he was told no.

Speaking on Channel 5’s Evil Behind Bars, Maudsley’s nephew, Gavin said: “He’s asking to be on his own because he knows what can happen.

“Put him on a wing surrounded by rapists and paedophiles – I know this because he told us – he was going to kill as many paedophiles as he could. I’m not condoning what he did.”

Gavin added: “He did very bad things.

“But he didn’t kill a child or woman. An innocent person didn’t go to work that day and never returned home. The people he killed were really bad people.”