Charles Bronson ‘hard to believe’ parole board didn’t see his Channel 4 documentary

Sketch by court painter Elizabeth Cooke Charles Bronson, emerging via video link from HMP Woodhill, during his public parole hearing.

Sketch by court painter Elizabeth Cooke Charles Bronson, emerging via video link from HMP Woodhill, during his public parole hearing.

Charles Bronson said he “hard to believe” that his parole board did not see his documentary.

Bronson, one of the UK’s most notorious prisoners who has spent much of the past 48 years behind bars, testified on Monday at the first of a three-day parole hearing.

The parole headline is the second in British history to be made public and public. Bronson will only be considered for release if the parole board determines that he now poses a low risk to society.

At the start of Monday’s hearing, the chairman of the commission said that while the group “knew” about the recent Channel 4 documentary Bronson: Fit for Release?, they had not seen it.

Wearing his trademark dark glasses and black suit, Bronson shouted from the other side of the table to the chairman, “I find this hard to believe!”

Bronson was secretly filmed for the documentary, taught to express remorse for his crimes, and testifying on Monday, he said: “I had 11 hostages, I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed of it. “May be. Would I do it again, definitely not?”

The group heard that Bronson had two confrontations with prison staff back in December last year, although he claims he is now “anti-violent.”

In one incident last November, an inmate now named Charles Salvador praised a prison nurse for her blouse and touched her shirt, asking if it was silk.

Bronson told the warden to “fuck off”

The staff member said it made her feel uncomfortable and told her to “fuck off,” Bronson’s prison warden said at the hearing.

The following month, on December 9, Bronson told the warden to “fuck off.”

Bronson is currently rated as a medium risk to staff and inmates, but is still a Category A prisoner held at the Strict Supervision Center (CSC) at Woodhill Prison near Milton Keynes.

The commission learned that he remains in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day due to a lack of staff in the prison.

Bronson was first jailed in 1974 for armed robbery, but a string of violent crimes while in custody saw him spend much of the last decade behind bars.

In 2000, he was sentenced to a discretionary life sentence for taking Phil Daniel, a prison art teacher, hostage with a makeshift spear during a two-day siege.

Dominic Raab, the Attorney General, opposes his parole and will argue that Bronson poses a high risk of serious harm to society.

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