It comes after 71-year-old Charles Bronson lost a parole board bid last March
Charles Bronson has listed the things he’ll do if a parole board ever sees past his history of violence and hostage-taking to set him free.
At 71 years old, Britain’s ‘most notorious inmate’, born Michael Gordon Peterson, has now spent more than 50 years behind bars in various prisons and psychiatric institutions for offences ranging from armed robbery to blackmail and false imprisonment.
In an interview with MailOnline, he recently revealed that if he’s ever released, he wants to walk barefoot on grass as well as finding a forest so that he can ‘hug a tree.’
It follows after his latest petition for parole, or at least being moved from HMP Woodhill to an open prison, was denied last March – decision Bronson says left him ‘disgusted.’
Speaking with the paper, he said: ‘The last time [I walked barefoot on grass’ was over 30 years ago. I would like to go into a greasy spoon and order the biggest fry up on the planet.
‘I want to go to a wood and hug a tree. Enjoy the little things in life. Go to a fish and chip shop and order fish and chips. Sit on a bench to eat it, whilst watching the world go by.’
He added: ‘My dreams are so simple and easy. I just want peace and quiet, and sit down and create my art.’
Bronson has yo-yoed in and out of prison since 1974 (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)
Despite presently being confined to his cell around 23 hours a day, Bronson holds out hope that the Parole Board will go back on their most recent decision when he appears before them again next, likely in 2025.
He said: ‘I think they will approve my release. They have to release me.
‘I was disgusted at my last parole. I had earned better than that. All my hard work in the past six years and to get nothing at all was devastating.’
A once-proud repeat offender, Bronson first wound up behind bars in 1974 for armed robbery, only to be convicted of wounding the following year and again in 1978 and 1985.
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He was released in 1987 but found himself incarcerated once more only 69 days later for robbing a jeweller’s, a pattern he repeated again in 1992.
A spate of hostage-taking within prison followed in 1994, 1997 and 1999, before in 2014 he attacked a prison governor for supposedly withholding his letters from the outside world.
However, Bronson claims that over the last ten years, he has changed his ways, becoming instead an artist whose works have sold to raise thousands for charities including the Born for Art Foundation.
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