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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Flora Thompson

Prisoner Bronson tells parole hearing he is an ‘angel’ compared with past self

PA Wire

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has described himself as a “retired prison activist” but told his parole hearing he loves a “rumble”.

Making his latest bid for freedom on Monday, one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners told a panel of Parole Board judges he is now anti-violence, a man of “peace” and “almost an angel now” compared with his old self. It was his 95-year-old mother’s “last dream” to see him released, he said.

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