Robert Maudsley: The Real Story Behind Britain's 'Hannibal the Cannibal'

Robert Maudsley has spent more than four decades locked in a purpose-built glass cell, fed through a hatch and watched around the clock by prison officers who rotate in pairs so no one is ever alone with him. The tabloids call him Britain's real Hannibal the Cannibal, a nickname built on a rumour that he cracked open a fellow inmate's skull and ate part of his brain. That part isn't true. What actually happened to Maudsley, and what he actually did, is a much stranger and grimmer story than...