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Charles Bronson, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, saw his bid for freedom rejected after the Parole Board concluded he lacks the 'skills to manage his risk of future violence'

The Parole Board concluded Charles Bronson lacks the 'skills to manage his risk of future violence' - the notorious offender was also denied a transfer to an open prison

Charles Bronson, 70, has spent most of the past 48 years behind bars - earlier this month he became the second inmate in UK legal history to have his case heard in public after rules changed last year in a bid to remove the secrecy around the process

Jordan Monaghan, who is currently serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 48 years, brazenly told cops he watched the Bruce Willis classic as he murdered baby Ruby on New Year's Day

Collin Reeves brutally stabbed neighbours Stephen and Jennifer Chapple to death at their home in Taunton, Somerset, while their children were asleep upstairs

David Redfern, 46, of Barmouth, Gwynedd, had refused to call an ambulance as frail Margaret Barnes lay dying outside his five-storey townhouse last July

James Watson, now 41, was jailed in June last year for the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave, whose body was found in woodland five minutes from his home in Welland, Peterborough in 1994

Gary Bennett, 37, was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years in prison after murdering 30-year-old Madison Wright, whose body was found in an Essex Park last year, eight days after she went missing

David Crouch, 79, lashed out at the former pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos as the convicted murderer appealed his 27-year sentence - claiming the original judge didn't take mitigating circumstances into account

Thabo Bester, who targeted his victims by finding them on Facebook, was found "dead" last May after a burned body was left in his cell - but he was later spotted in shops and restaurants in an upmarket part of Cape Town

Emily Jones was knifed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Eltiona Skana as she rode through Queens Park in Bolton on her scooter on Mother's Day 2020, with an inquest finally set to begin in May

A jury took just one hour and 26 minutes to convict serial knife-crime offender Harley Robinson of murdering Jason Whincup – one of the shortest times ever seen at the court for such a serious case

Brandon McNeil, 20, was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 24 years after admitting to murdering Shane Jerome, 23, in Brixton, south London, in July 2021

Shazib Khan was jailed in 2016, aged 23, and was described by a judge as "absolutely committed to the Jihadi creed" after planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES Martina Turner was attacked by her partner Steven Wood at her home in Gateshead, during which he promised to 'finish her off' in a brutal assault where he stabbed her 29 times

Mum-of-three Mihrican 'Jan' Mustafa, 38, had been missing for nearly a year when her remains were found at a convicted sex offender's property, which police had knocked on months beforehand

Surpreet Dhillon seduced and drugged her victim before calling two men to kill him in his own home. She was seen on camera weeping after being charged with murder before speaking to her son on the phone

Abigail White, 24, is serving life in jail after stabbing boyfriend Bradley Lewis to death but the "Fake Barbie" Onlyfans star now wants conjugal visits with her new man

WARNING - OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Charles Bronson, 70, recalls extraordinary events during nearly 50 years in jail - from meeting Tom Hardy, his sex fantasy should he get out of prison and alleged brutality he faced behind bars

Two brothers laughed during sentencing as they were jailed along with a 15-year-old boy after a security guard was killed in a street attack, with one of the attackers asking the victim if he 'wanted to see a knockout punch'

Sidney Holmes, 57, was sentenced to 400 years in prison for an armed robbery which took place in 1988, but he was found innocent in a reinvestigation of the case in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

Marek Hecko, who was jailed for life yesterday, could be seen swigging from a bottle of alcohol outside a home in Essex as he told a police officer that he "knows what happened"

In Jordan Trengove’s first TV interview since Eleanor Williams was jailed, he told Good Morning Britain hosts Ed Balls and Susanna Reid her lies drove him to attempt to take his life

ISIS supporter Sayfullo Saipov rammed a truck along a busy New York City bike path killing eight people including two children in the October 2017 terror attack

Igor Kuzmenko, known to be a "sadistic killer gangster" used faked passports and plastic surgery to evade being captured for 17 years. The 'Les' gang member is responsible for over 50 deaths and is awaiting trial