Charles Bronson (inmate)

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Charles Salvador

Charles Arthur Salvador , born as Michael Gordon Peterson , better known under the name Charlie Bronson (born December 6, 1952 in Luton ), is a British prisoner and known in the press as "Britain's most dangerous prisoner", among other things because of assaults and hostages . Salvador was often involved in small brawls and fights before embarking on a career as a bare knuckle boxer in the East End of Londonstarted. His stage name "Charles Bronson" came from this time. As “England's toughest prisoner”, he published several books about his experiences, including those with well-known fellow inmates. Salvador describes himself as a fitness fanatic and also wrote a book about fitness training in a confined space.

Life

Childhood and youth

Charles Arthur Salvador says he was born Michael Gordon Peterson at 59 Long Croft Road in Luton, England. He was one of three sons of the couple Eira and Joe Peterson. His father later ran the Conservative Club in Aberystwyth . Salvador's uncle and aunt were mayor and mayor of Luton between 1969 and 1970. His aunt, Eileen Parry, says of Salvador: “He was a lovely guy as a boy. He was so innocent and always nice to other children. He was never a tyrant. Rather he protected the weak. "

As a teenager, Salvador moved with his parents to Ellesmere Port , Cheshire , where he got into trouble. Salvador later returned to Luton, which he called his hometown, and worked as a muscle man in a circus.

He met his first wife Irene in 1969. Irene recalls: “He was so different from any other man I knew. He always wore tailored suits, always had perfectly trimmed sideburns and a Cockney - accented . Later "Eight months when Irene was four months pregnant, they married in the registry office of Chester in December 1970. Four years later, when their son Mike three Was years old, the police stormed the house looking for Peterson. He was caught shortly afterwards and sent to prison. Irene originally wanted to wait for him, but after five years with no end in sight, she filed for divorce. She later married again. Her real name is now Irene Dunroe and she has two other children with her new husband.

Before Salvador was imprisoned, he had a brief career as a bare knuckle boxer in the East End of London. Here he met Lenny McLean, who brokered him for fights. In 1989, Salvador's boxing promoter brought about the change of name from Michael Peterson to Charles Bronson - albeit never officially registered, but "not because he liked the Death Wish films with the actor Charles Bronson ."

1974-1989

Salvador was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1974 for armed robbery of a post office in Little Sutton, a district of Ellesmere Port. He captured £ 26.18. The length of the sentence was extended several times as he was convicted of multiple offenses (including assault, property damage, deprivation of liberty, extortion, and attempted manslaughter) within the prison. Salvador was held in solitary confinement for four years only because of several hostage-taking, rooftop protests and attacks on prison staff and fellow inmates. His conduct resulted in his being transferred to over 120 prisons by Her Majesty's Prison Service . Including all three institutions for the dangerous, criminally insane: Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. Salvador took several hostages in 1983 and spent 47 hours on the roof of Broadmoor Prison. The cost of the resulting damage from destruction was £ 750,000.

He was first released on October 30, 1988 and spent 69 days free before being re-imprisoned for robbery in early 1989.

1989 – today

From 1989 he called himself Charles Bronson. From November 9, 1992, he remained free for 53 days before being arrested and detained again in 1993 for raping on the robbery.

Salvador spent a total of four months and nine days on parole in 1994 before being returned to prison.

In 1994, Salvador held a guard in Woodhill hostage. He asked for an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea as a release. Two months later, he held MP Adrian Wallace hostage for five hours in Hull Prison, injuring him so badly that he was off duty for five weeks.

In 1996, Salvador held two Iraqi kidnappers and one other inmate hostage at Belmarh Prison in London. He insisted that his hostages address him as General and explained to negotiators "that he would eat one of his victims faster than they could meet his demands." Hit metal tray on the head. When the hostage refused to do this, Bronson slit his shoulder with a razor blade. He later explained to the prison staff: "I actually wanted to turn a few necks - I'm the number 1 hostage-taker". During the hostage-taking he asked for an airplane, two Uzi submachine guns with 5000 rounds of ammunition and an ax. At the subsequent court hearing, Salvador testified that he was “guilty as Adolf Hitler” and added that he was “on a mission of madness, but now on a mission of peace. All I want to do is go home and have a beer with my son ”. He was sentenced to another seven years in addition to serving his sentence.

In 1999, Salvador took hostage for 44 hours the art teacher Phil Danielson, who was a supervisor in Hull Prison. Danielson, who was in mortal fear during this time, was never to recover from this traumatic experience and later took early retirement at 46.

In 1999, a custom built device was built in Woodhill Prison to reduce the risk of attacks by Salvador and two other inmates on prison staff and other inmates.

In 2000, Salvador was sentenced to life imprisonment for being held hostage again. His appeal against this ruling was denied in 2004. Salvador was classified as a Category A inmate and was transferred to the maximum security prison in Wakefield.

2001 Salvador remarried at Milton Keynes', HMP Woodhill. Fatima Saira Rehman was a Muslim, Bangladeshi- born, divorced woman who saw his picture in a newspaper and started writing to him. Rehman visited Salvador ten times before the wedding took place. She worked in a women's home; however, when her relationship with Salvador became known, her employer fired her. For a short time Salvador converted to Islam due to his marriage and wished to be called Charles Ali Ahmed from then on. After four years the marriage was divorced and Salvador turned away from Islam again. Since then, Rehman has given many interviews about her short marriage to Salvador, putting him in a bad light. In an interview she said: "He deceived me - he is nothing more than a racist thug."

Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, two men visited Salvador (who was still Ali Ahmed) and offered to release him if he infiltrated Muslim prisoners.

Another hostage-taking in 2007 involving two officers destroyed Salvador's glasses. Salvador received £ 200 in damages, which he was asking for, for the glasses made of pre-war gold that he had received from Lord Longford .

He had the option of a parole hearing in 2008, but it was postponed because his attorney objected to the one-hour probation hearing, stating that Salvador's case would take a full day to hear. The parole hearing was held on March 11, 2009, but the request was denied a short time later. The parole board justified this with the fact that Salvador could not prove any improvement in his person.

When he was denied the painting material in 2011, another fight broke out. Nine guards were needed to bring the 58-year-old back to his cell.

On August 3, 2014, Salvador himself announced in a handwritten letter via his supporter website that he had officially and legally renamed himself Charles Arthur Salvador and that Charlie Bronson had "died". In the meantime, Salvador has completed an anti-aggression course.

In 2017, Salvador married actress Paula Williamson. She campaigned for his release. Williamson died in July 2019, a month after she filed for divorce from Salvador.

Projects

In prison, Salvador developed an extreme fitness program and claimed to do 92 pushups in 30 seconds. In 2002 he published the book Solitary Fitness with a detailed training plan in a confined space.

Salvador later spent his time writing and painting poetry. He published a total of eleven books, including the self-written work Loonyology: In my Words . He won eleven Koestler Trust Awards for his poetry and art.

Salvador donated paintings to charity auctions.

filming

The film Bronson , which is loosely based on Salvador's life, was produced by Vertigo Films and released in Britain on March 13, 2009. Tom Hardy can be seen here in the lead role as Bronson. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn . There was some controversy at the premiere of the film when a sound recording of Salvador was shown that had not previously been approved by prison officials. An investigation was called to determine how the recording could have come about. In Germany the film was released directly on DVD in December 2009.

bibliography

  • Charles Bronson: Bronson. John Blake Publishing Ltd. 8 Oct 2004 ed. ISBN 1-85782-522-5 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: Solitary Fitness. (2002 ed.). Mirage. ISBN 1-902578-12-0 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: Insanity: My Mad Life. (March 31, 2004 ed.). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-030-8 .
  • Charles Bronson: Bronson 2: More Porridge Than Goldilocks. (November 2, 2009 ed.). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-860-0 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: The Krays and Me. (April 30, 2007 ed.). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-325-0 .
  • Charles Bronson: Loonyology: In My Own Words. (November 2, 2009 ed.). Apex Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-906358-11-7 .
  • Charles Bronson: Diaries from Hell: Charles Bronson - My Prison Diaries. (May 1, 2009 ed.). Y Lolfa. ISBN 1-84771-116-2 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: The Charles Bronson Book of Poems: Birdman Opens His Mind. Bk. 1 (May 1, 1999 ed.). Mirage. ISBN 1-902578-03-1 .
  • Charles Bronson, Tel Currie: Heroes and Villains: The Good, the Mad, the Bad and the Ugly. (August 5, 2005 ed.). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-118-5 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: The Good Prison Guide. (February 28, 2007 ed.). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-359-5 .
  • Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards: Silent Scream: The Charles Bronson Story. (September 5, 1999 ed.). Mirage. ISBN 1-902578-08-2 .
  • Charles Bronson, Mark Emmins (Eds.): Con-artist. (December 19, 2008 ed.). Matador. ISBN 1-84876-048-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Bronson: Solitary Fitness . Mirage, 2002, ISBN 978-1-902-57812-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ a b c Geoffrey Wansell: The lionising of a monster: The film that portrays armed robber Charles Bronson as a gentle giant ... and claims HE'S the victim . The Daily Mail, March 7, 2009. Accessed January 10, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b c d Bronson: 'Gentle boy' to terror inmate . BBC News, February 17, 2000. Accessed March 11, 2009
  4. ↑ a b c Irene Dunroe: Your dad's Britain's most violent prisoner. In: pickmeupmagazine.co.uk. September 15, 2007, archived from the original on October 12, 2008 ; Retrieved January 10, 2010 .
  5. ^ "About Charles Bronson". freebronson.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; Retrieved April 21, 2014 .
  6. ^ Tel Currie: Charles Bronson the Truth. In: freebronson.co.uk. 2010, archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Jo Clements: Prison thug Charles Bronson admits 'I'm not ashamed' in message to moviegoers . The Daily Mail, March 10, 2009. Accessed January 9, 2010.
  8. ^ Free Charles Bronson Website - Documents. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009 ; Retrieved July 20, 2007 .
  9. ^ Special new unit for Britain's three most dangerous prisoners . The Independent. August 25, 1999. Accessed March 11, 2009
  10. ^ Judge praises Bronson, but rules he must stay in jail . The Daily Telegraph. April 3, 2004. Accessed March 11, 2009
  11. ^ A b Bronson gets payout from prison . BBC News. May 11, 2007. Accessed March 12, 2009
  12. ↑ Attempt to publish Bronson pictures . BBC News. January 20, 2004. Accessed January 10, 2010
  13. ^ New bride for Bronson . BBC News. June 1, 2001. Accessed March 11, 2009
  14. ↑ Lord Longford toasts madcap marriage of jailed Bronson . The Daily Telegraph. June 5, 2001. Accessed March 11, 2009
  15. ↑ Esther Addley: Charlie is my darling . The Guardian, August 16, 2001. Accessed January 10, 2010
  16. ↑ James McCarthy: UK's most dangerous jailbird Charles Bronson in MI5 tap-up claim . Wales On Sunday February 3, 2008. Accessed January 9, 2010
  17. ^ "Statement from Charles Bronson in Wakefield Prison". freebronson.co.uk. August 6, 2008. Archived from the original on June 6, 2009 ; Retrieved March 11, 2009 .
  18. ^ Jailhouse flick: Charles Bronson makes biopic from solitary . London: The Times. February 15, 2009. Accessed March 11, 2009
  19. ^ 'Dangerous' Charles Bronson refused parole after more than 34 years behind bars . Mirror.co.uk News. June 15, 2009. Accessed June 17, 2009
  20. ↑ Arno Frank: Charles Bronson: The most dangerous prisoner in Great Britain. In: Spiegel Online . December 6, 2012, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  21. ↑ "3rd August 2014: Charlie has taken the decision to change his name [officially] via deed poll, to Charles Salvador. To read more about this and Charlie's reasoning for this, please see the statement. "The Charlie Bronson Appeal Fund. Archived copy ( memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Accessed August 28, 2014
  22. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Charles Bronson transforms hardman image with anger management course . December 3, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2014
  24. ↑ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6001558/charles-bronsons-wife-paula-williamson-says-britains-hardest-lag-is-well-endowed-but-they-havent-had-sex -yet /
  25. ^ Robert Verkaik: Visiting time: Charles Bronson invites us into his cell. In: The Independent. May 19, 2008, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved January 9, 2010 .
  26. ^ The Koestler Trust . Accessed March 11, 2009
  27. ^ Charles Bronson donates money to help with child's cerebral palsy treatment .
  28. ^ Bronson (2009) . Internet Movie Database. Accessed March 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Bronson, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salvador, Charles Arthur; Peterson, Michael Gordon (maiden name); Bronson, Charlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prisoner and bare knuckle boxer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Luton