‘Cannibal’ convict’s sick joke to guards after double slaying
Robert Maudsley is locked up in solitary for 23 hours a day
TWISTED serial killer Robert him for nine hours. When Maudsley, dubbed Hannibal finally found, the dead man’s the Cannibal, was terrifyingly head was said to be “cracked calm as he confessed to open like a boiled egg,” with a having murdered two fellow spoon hanging out. prisoners in a single day. A guard said Maudsley had
He strolled up to a guard eaten part of his victim’s brain, in top security Wakefield hence the British Hannibal the prison and casually remarked: Cannibal tag.
“There’ll be two short on the This was untrue but the roll call.” grim myth lives on.
He had killed both with a Maudsley was sent to makeshift knife. They were Wakefield, known as Monster the third and fourth victims Mansion because of the large of the monster, who will never number of notorious prisoners be freed from jail. held there, and in July 1978
While the truth about killed twice in one day. Maudsley’s horrific actions has His first victim was wife become blurred at times, killer Salney Darwood, 46, there is no who he lured doubting his into a cell savagery. before
In 1974 strangling and Maudsley, born stabbing him in Toxteth, with a knife Liverpool, made from a carried out his soup spoon. first murder. He He hid the was working as a body under a rent boy when a bunk, before builder named creeping into John Farrell the cell of child picked him up molester and took him William back to his North MONSTERS HMP Wakefield Roberts, 56. London flat for sex. Roberts was lying on his
Maudsley, then 20, flew bed when Maudsley smashed into a rage when Farrell his head against a wall and showed him photos of a young then prised his skull open with girl he had abused. He slowly the knife. garrotted Farrell, turning the Now 66, Maudsley is kept in builder’s face blue. solitary confinement for 23
The killer handed himself in hours a day and is not allowed to police and was sent to to interact with other inmates Broadmoor Hospital, where because of his history. he earned his first nickname, In chilling tapes made with Blue, after the colour of his prison psychiatrist Dr Bob victim’s face. Johnson, Maudsley said: “I’m
Three years later, he just capable of anything, Bob.” became known as Spoons and In 2000, he pleaded for an Hannibal the Cannibal, when easing of his solitary or to be he and another psychopath allowed to commit suicide via took paedophile David Francis a cyanide capsule. His call for a hostage in his cell and tortured pet budgie was also denied.