Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail. The Parole Board review of one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners to decide whether he should remain behind bars made him the second inmate in UK legal history to have his case heard in public.
He was handed a discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of four years in 2000 for taking a prison teacher at HMP Hull hostage for 44 hours. Since then, the Parole Board has repeatedly refused to direct his release. Today, the Parole Board concluded he lacks the "skills to manage his risk of future violence". He was also denied a transfer to an open prison.
The news was broken to Bronson via a letter in an envelope at about 11.30am.
