Charles Bronson has high hopes of leaving prison before Christmas as he waits to secure a public parole hearing.
The notorious prisoner, who is currently at high-security HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, has become the first person to formally ask for his next review to be held in public.
Bronson, 70, has spent most of the last 50 years locked up, often being kept in specialist units or solitary confinement.
