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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Prisoner Charles Bronson tells parole hearing ‘I just want to go out and do my art’

Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (left), appearing at his eighth parole hearing via video link from HMP Woodhill. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s longest serving and most notorious prisoners, has told a parole hearing that he is now a “man of peace” and just wants to “go out and do my art”.

Bronson, 70, who has been in jail for 48 years, almost continuously, much of it in solitary confinement, said he had deserved “a good 35 years” of that stretch because he had been “naughty” but he is now reformed.

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