Quadruple killer Richard Maudsley is considered so dangerous that he has been given his own special cell and kept apart from other prisoners for 46 years

Maudsley was locked in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983, after he killed child abuser John Farrell when he was just 21.

Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley is feared so dangerous he has been given his own special cell and kept apart from other inmates for almost 17,000 days, or 46 years

Robert Maudsley has spent the last 50 Christmases in his cell and this year is no different - but, despite being in solitary confinement, the criminal is entitled to a full Christmas dinner.

Robert Maudsley's purpose-built, super-secure cell has been compared to the one housing Dr Hannibal Lecter in the film The Silence of the Lambs.

Robert Maudsley, 71, is known as one of the UK's most dangerous and infamous prisoners. He has spent the last 50 Christmases in a cell at Wakefield Prison and will be entitled to a full Christmas dinner