Robert John Maudsley

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Robert John Maudsley (1983)

Robert John Maudsley (born June 26, 1953 in Liverpool ) is a British serial killer . He committed four homicides, including three of fellow inmates in prison, after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his first murder.

Life

Maudsley was born in Liverpool, the fourth of twelve children. He and his three siblings were taken to the nun-run Catholic orphanage Nazareth House because of “parental neglect”, where he spent most of his childhood. A few years later he and his three siblings were brought home by his parents.

As it later emerged, Maudsley was brutally physically abused by his father. At the age of 16 he ran away from home to London, where he was addicted to drugs and repeatedly placed in psychiatric hospitals because of repeated suicide attempts . There he told the doctors that he repeatedly heard voices in his head ordering him to kill his parents. In order to be able to finance his drug addiction, he also offered himself as a "rent boy" , whereby he developed an irrepressible hatred of pedophiles .

In 1974 he murdered a worker for showing him photos of child pornography . In doing so, he prepared his victim in such a way that he “could no longer be recognized as a person”. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and transferred to Broadmoor Hospital, a high security facility for mentally disturbed criminals, for the cruelty of the crime. In 1977 he and a fellow inmate ambushed another inmate convicted of child sexual abuse in their cell, where they tortured him for over nine hours and then killed him. The claim later made public that he ate his victim's brain is inaccurate; according to the autopsy report , the skull was intact and the brain largely uninjured.

For security reasons, he was taken to Wakefield Prison, where he lured a fellow inmate into his cell in 1978, cut his throat and hid him under his bed. He then sneaked into another inmate's cell, hacked his skull open, and banged his head against the cell wall several times. He then confessed to a guard.

Maudsley was locked in solitary confinement and then moved to a specially made cell in the prison cellar. For this purpose, two cells were put together (5.5 × 4.5 meters) and lined with bulletproof glass so that one could observe him. His food and other items are passed through a specially secured lock. He is only allowed to leave the cell for one hour a day, accompanied by six prison guards, to walk down a strictly monitored 20-foot-long and 12-foot-wide corridor, with no contact with other prisoners.

After 23 years in solitary confinement, Maudsley caused a stir in 2000 with a series of letters to the London Times in which he complained about the conditions of his detention and asked for classical music CDs, a television set, pictures, personal care items and a budgie , and alternatively, if all of this is not possible, a cyanide capsule to commit suicide.

Artistic reception

music

literature

  • Jaques Buval: The real Hannibal Lecter. 5th edition. Weltbild, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-89604-551-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The caged misery of Britain's real 'Hannibal the Cannibal' . The Observer , April 27, 2003 (English)
  2. ^ Notice from the British Press Complaints Commission . Version archived at archive.org from March 13, 2012
  3. ↑ Killer begs for budgie or suicide BBC News (Great Britain) of March 28, 2000 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Maudsley, Robert John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool