Charles Bronson, Britain's most notorious prisoner, has become the first person to formally ask for a public Parole Board hearing and will make history when the meeting takes place next year. The hearings have traditionally been held in private, but now the rules have changed to allow victims and reporters to witness the event, where it is determined if an inmate should be freed from jail or stay behind bars.
Bronson, who has changed his name to Charles Salvador, is now 69 but he was first locked up at the age of 13 and has spent most of the years since behind bars. Now one of his prison chums, reformed gangster Stephen Gillen, has spoken out and said the public hearing is a good thing. He claims that it will remove any so-called bias or 'corruption' and could lead to the infamous lag's release - saying "he should be free!"
