Charles Bronson in freedom bid as fundraiser launched to buy him £32,500 caravan
Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson will make a fresh bid for freedom in weeks - as a fundraising appeal was launched to buy him a caravan for his release.
The 69-year-old inmate - who has spent four decades behind bars for armed robbery and attacks on other inmates - is expected to appear before a public parole hearing in March.
He is demanding the hearing is held in the open so he can prove he is no longer a danger to the public.
And now an online fundraising campaign is underway to raise £32,500 for Bronson so he can buy a caravan for life on the outside in Devon.
In an online post this week, it states: “On March 6, 2023 Charles Bronson (now known as Charles Salvador) will be standing in front of the UK parole board with the hope of finally being released from custody and given the chance at freedom that he so much deserves.
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The fundaising page“Charlie is no longer an aggressive criminal, he is a born again artist who has spent the majority of his prison life in segregation doing his artwork.
“He has not been violent or aggressive for nearly 10 years. He is 70 years old in a few months and just wants to get out of prison and enjoy his remaining years as a pensioner, living in a caravan in Devon by himself near his family.
“I am organising a fundraising campaign to pay for Charlie to buy a caravan in Devon when he is released from prison, hopefully on March 6, 2023.
“We are very hopeful that he will be released at this parole. If he isn't, we will be using the caravan to give free holidays to families that don’t have much money, until the day he is released.”
Bronson has spent the past 40 years of his life behind bars and much of those in solitary confinement (Sunday Mirror)Bronson, who hopes to be freed this summer, insists he has turned his life around in prison after decades of misdemeanours.
In one notorious fracas he covered himself with butter to attack 12 prison officers because Arsenal won the FA Cup.
He had coated himself as he hoped the grease would make it harder to restrain him.
But in recent years Bronson - who changed his name to Salvador behind bars - says he's turned over a new leaf, has taken up painting and is now due to have one of Britain's first public parole hearing.
In a call from his prison cell in HMP Woodhill in Bucks last year, he said: "My last nearly five years, my reports have been excellent, I've changed, I've become an artist, I have rehabilitated myself.
“I'm planning to live in Devon away from all the crime and all the villains.
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“I have turned a chapter in my life, I'm more relaxed, I'm chilled out, I'm not a danger to anybody. And I still say I'm not a danger to the British public. If so, who to?
“Who have I killed? Who have I raped? Who am I a danger to outside? Nobody."
A post on the JustGiving website this week said: “Weʼre raising £32,500 to buy Charles Bronson a residential site caravan to live in when he is released from prison after 49 years.
“Charles Bronson is the UK’s longest serving prisoner. He has campaigned for prison reform throughout his life, taken on the prison system and never backed down with anything that he believes in.
“Charlie has been labelled as the UK’s most violent and notorious prisoner, an image he has been trying very hard to get rid of.
“He has never murdered anybody and never hurt a woman or child. The majority of his crimes have been against the prison system.
“Yes, he has been a very bad man in the distant past but he has also been very charitable and supportive to thousands of people throughout his prison life.
“Charlie’s artwork has made hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pounds for charities. He has also helped many people with mental health problems and been very supportive of so many from all walks of life.”
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