Inside HMP Wakefield as a brand new ebook reveals the secrets and techniques of the jail that homes Britain’s most infamous murderers and intercourse criminals

It’s the British jail that homes such evil and known as the Monster Mansion.

From one-legged killer Michael Sams to twisted killer Levi Bellfield, a few of the sickest males within the nation languish behind bars at Wakefield Jail.

Now a brand new ebook lifts the lid on jail secrets and techniques, the place deviant Misplaced Prophets singer Ian Watkins pays gangsters for cover, infamous inmate Charles Bronson acts “like a spoiled brat” and “Physician Dying” Harold Shipman as soon as provided medical recommendation to inmates. Prisoners.

It additionally reveals why intercourse offender John Worboys lives within the jail medical part and the way the ‘Friday the thirteenth’ killer makes jokes about his murders.

It particulars the horrific story of how “Hannibal the Cannibal” killer Robert Maudsley acquired his nickname.

Authors Jonathan Levy and Dr Emma French spent months researching their ebook, chatting with insiders, officers and former prisoners.

“We had the prisoners inform us what it was prefer to stay and work there, to inform us what these terrifying prisoners – who they thought-about friends in a method – appeared like up shut,” says Jonathan.

“How they stay with them, how they’re as cellmates, as folks in the identical ward.”

Amongst these serving time in Wakefield is killer Michael Sams.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the homicide of Julie Dart, 18, in 1991, after kidnapping her from the road.

Six months later, property agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped whereas exhibiting at a property in Birmingham.

Stephanie was handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded whereas saved in a coffin-shaped field inside a dumpster at Sam’s Workshop in Newark, Notts.

Eight days later, she was launched after paying a ransom.

Pals say Stephanie, who died of most cancers aged 50 in 2017, by no means acquired over her ordeal.

Final 12 months, Sams, 82, was denied parole — and has spent his life complaining about the whole lot in jail.

One jail officer instructed the authors: “I keep in mind one notably humorous time.

“He got here into the workplace to complain about his mattress.

“Think about the scene, Michael Sams, on the window on one leg, complaining concerning the state of the mattress and the way he could not sleep and it was unfair and inhumane and all this stuff towards what he did to his poor victims.

“So this cleansing man stated, ‘Pay attention, child, you wish to attempt sleeping in a trash can.’

“By Christ Almighty, I nearly choked on my espresso.

“He simply stared at it and walked out.”

Ian Huntley, who murdered ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambs, in 2002, was detained in Wakefield till 2008, when he was transferred after frequently threatening to kill himself.

One jail officer described him as a “pathetic individual”, saying: “I can’t say something good about him as a result of there was nothing good about him.

“He was so needy, he was all the time on suicide watch.

“It was like a moist lettuce leaf.”

Different infamous prisoners who hung out there embody Charles Bronson and Robert Maudsley, who’s so risky that he has been locked in a particular glass cell within the jail’s basement since two of the prisoners have been murdered.

‘Enormous aim’

Insiders described Bronson, one in every of Britain’s most violent convicts – who was first jailed in 1974 for armed theft – as “like a spoiled brat” dwelling in a cell with a TV, phone, good furnishings and his personal bedding, with entry to a fitness center and luxurious bathe.

But he nonetheless “moans and groans when he would not get what he needs.”

Maudsley is alleged to have hated Bronson, and earlier than his glass cell was in-built 1983, he cherished to get pleasure from loud rock music.

Maudsley (70 years previous) earned the nickname “Hannibal the Cannibal” after he inserted a spoon into the mind of a kid who was torturing and suffocating him at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital in 1977.

One of many first nurses to reach on the scene stated to Jonathan and Emma: “Broadmoor’s stout and grizzled nurses, as they are typically, could not break into Bob Maudsley’s room.

“The sufferer was ultimately introduced out of his or her agony by momentary strangulation, after which displayed in entrance of the spy gap within the cell for the helpless Broadmoor employees to see.

“After they lastly managed to reach, the sufferer was partially skinned.

“It’s probably that this skinning occurred whereas he was nonetheless alive, as attested to by his screams echoing by means of Broadmoor throughout his ordeal.”

The next 12 months, Maudsley murdered two prisoners at Wakefield.

Serial intercourse offender John Worboys has been discovered responsible of committing assaults, together with rape, on 12 girls after drugging them in his black automotive.

A fellow prisoner says he now lives within the healthcare ward inside Wakefield to guard him.

“Due to his profile, he’s now an enormous goal,” he instructed the authors.

“He’s fearful of his personal shadow. He’s not a fighter or a robust man. He’s very weak and weak.”

Former jail officer Martin Baker described how murderers and intercourse demons would take recommendation from serial killer Harold Shipman, who killed an estimated 250 of his sufferers.

“Once I would take care of folks on the fitness center they might include therapies,” he stated.

“Oh yeah, you might need a bit of torn ligament or one thing,” I say.

“They will say, ‘Nicely, Harold Shipman says I’ve so-and-so.’

“I say: Nicely, he cannot treatment you anyway, so I do not care what he says about you!”

Martin described triple killer Levi Belfield, whose victims included 13-year-old schoolgirl Millie Dowler in 2002, as a “typical psychopath”.

“Like a tramp”

In the meantime, Shipman was stated to be associates with sexual predator Peter Moore.

Moore murdered 4 males in North Wales in 1995, however instructed the jury at his trial that the murders have been dedicated by an imaginary lover whom he referred to as Jason, after the killer within the horror movies Friday the thirteenth.

Insiders say he jokes quite a bit concerning the assault on a pair he tied up.

He says that when the person begged him to not assault his spouse, he instructed him: “Sir, how dare you, I’m not right here for her, it’s you that I would like.”

Whereas inmates haven’t any downside searching for recommendation from the likes of Shipman, they hate baby killers and sexual assaulters.

Wakefield officers declare Roy Whiting, who murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne in 2000, and Mark Bridger, convicted of murdering April Jones, 5, in Wales in 2012, are most liable to assaults from different prisoners.

Whiting, 65, was stabbed in Wakefield earlier this 12 months.

“He by no means comes out of his cell,” says an insider.

“He simply smokes.

“He is carrying jail garments, he is like a tramp.

“He works in workshop No. 8 utilizing a stitching machine.

“He goes to work, comes again and stays in his cell right here.

“It is solely a matter of time earlier than he is killed.”

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, 46, is shopping for safety in jail, in accordance with one other prisoner.

The Welshman was sentenced in 2013 after a harrowing trial on fees together with rape of a kid.

He filmed himself partaking in sexual acts with an toddler the day after the discharge of the band’s ultimate album, “Weapons,” in 2012.

He was stabbed and tortured in jail final 12 months.

The jail supply instructed the authors: “He’s shopping for his safety, and his final stabbing was attributable to a drug debt.”

“He’s thought-about despicable amongst different criminals.

“He has a whole lot of feminine followers and will get messages from a whole lot of females.

“He maintains his innocence due to the disgrace of his crimes.

“He’s hated by many, however as a result of HMP Wakefield is a blended bag, i.e. vice presidents, high-level gangsters, drug importers and arranged crime, they solely take cash from him for his security.

1000’s have been spent on safety.

“The latest stabbing incident was a reminder that he wanted to push.

“He took a amount of spices from a prisoner with a jail worth of £150.

“As a result of it was Watkins, he was instructed he owed £900.

“He was excessive and refused to pay, so he was stabbed within the facet with a pointy bathroom brush.”

• Inside Wakefield Jail: Life Behind Bars within the Monster’s Palace, by Jonathan Levy and Emma French (John Blake, £9.99) is out on Thursday.