Charles Bronson, one of the UK's most notorious prisoners, has been granted his request for a public Parole Board hearing. Bronson's latest bid for freedom next year will take place in public after the Parole Board said it granted an application made by lawyers for Bronson "in the interests of justice".
Bronson - who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 after the artist Salvador Dali - is one of the country's longest serving prisoners and has been dubbed one of Britain’s most violent offenders. He has been in prison for much of the last 50 years, often in solitary confinement or specialist units.
It is believed the 66-year-old is being held at high-security HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes. Bronson has previously said he was first sent to jail in 1968 and has held 11 hostages in nine different sieges – with victims including governors, doctors, staff and, on one occasion, his own solicitor.
