Known as Blue, Spoons, Hannibal the Cannibal, and Britain’s Most Dangerous Prisoner, Robert John Maudsley is infamous for being Britain's longest-serving prisoner, having spent the last 48 years in prison - 44 of them in solitary. But how did he end up there, and does he truly deserve not only his title - but his fate as well?
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