Child killer Roy Whiting told prison staff he was too scared to sleep in Harold Shipman's bed on Wakefield prison's D-wing as ...

Maudsley was confined to a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983 after he murdered child abuser John Farrell at the age of 21. Officially classified as Britain's most dangerous ...

In 2000, Shipman was found guilty of 15 murders and one forgery, which put him behind bars for 15 life sentences and four ...

we opened cell doors and uncovered the secrets of life inside the UK's toughest prison,” Reed says in his documentary. “Many of HMP Wakefield's inmates are imprisoned for life, some will never ...

And yet 21 years ago this month, Harold 'Dr Death' Shipman – Britain's most prolific serial killer by several country miles – ended his life at Category A Wakefield Prison. The bearded monster ...

Now, Wakefield is facing charges of criminal homicide. Officials say they were called to the prison Tuesday where they discovered 25-year-old Joshua Steven Perry facedown under his cell bed with ...

The cells have large bulletproof windows through ... Describing the grim existence in Wakefield Prison, he said: “I’ve been in and out of it for twenty odd years. It’s all I knew.

A convicted murderer carried out a sickening attack on a paedophile in his own prison cell ... Bickerdike entered Morris’ cell at HMP Wakefield, on January 7, 2023, distracted him and then ...

Michael Spurr, chief executive of HM Prison & Probation Service, said: "I am pleased that the chief inspector has commended the high quality of work being done at Wakefield which is a credit to ...

Robert 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. Maudsley is officially classified as ...

Now deemed too dangerous to remain among the general prison population, work began on constructing a special glass-caged cell for Maudsley in the bowels of Wakefield Prison. By 1983, it was ready.