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re: Parole DENIED AGAIN For Notorious Prisoner Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson Public Parole Hearing 7 MAR 2023
Charles Bronson asks for freedom at parole hearing. Son says he has 'not done himself any favours'
BBC 9 MAR 2023
A hearing has taken place to decide if one of the country's most infamous prisoners, Charles Bronson, should be released after nearly 50 years behind bars.
The 70-year-old, also known as Charles Salvador, didn't hold back as he made a bid for his release from prison at a parole hearing.
Bronson was given 15 minutes to make an opening statement saying, "First of all, it's no secret I have had more porridge than Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and I'm sick of it".
Charles Bronson, one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners, has "not done himself any favours" during his parole hearing, his son has said.
The 70-year-old, who is currently at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, has been in prison for much of the last 50 years.
A Parole Board panel is deciding whether he can be released.
His son George Bamby, who lives in Devon, said: "I think he deserves a chance to prove himself."
Luton-born Bronson is being held at a specialist close supervision centre in the prison.
Three parole judges - who have not been publicly named - are considering his case at HMP Woodhill while members of the press and public watch proceedings on a live stream from the Royal Courts of Justice in central London.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Bamby said Bronson had "been a really naughty boy over the years"
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Bamby said: "I'm not sure he has done himself any favours during the parole hearing with swearing and cursing.
"But Charlie is sat there in front of three people there in prison, authority figures again, and every time he sits down with them he is promised this and he is promised that and I think he's just so frustrated and fed up with the system.
"I think it is just pure frustration with Charlie - he's been in so long."
"He thinks they are making an idiot out of him and just won't ever let him out."
Mr Bamby said his father had "been a really naughty boy over the years and he has done some really bad things and I think he should have been locked up for a long time".
"Having said that, I don't think he should have been locked up for 49 years. There are a lot of murderers, child killers and all sorts of people walking the streets.
"He's never murdered anybody, he's never hurt a woman or a child. He has been violent in prison - the majority of the violence he has done in prison has been against the system and against authority figures."
He said his father had "not been in any trouble" in recent years and "deserves to get out".
"He is 70 years old now, he is an old man, he wants to get out and do his art work. He is not going to be a harm to anybody," he added.
Bronson's first conviction was in 1974 when he was 21 and was jailed for seven years for robbery, aggravated burglary, assault with intent to rob and possession of a firearm.
Born Michael Peterson, he changed his name to Charles Bronson in the 1980s as an alias dreamed up when he went into boxing.
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