High-security jail HMP Wakefield is nicknamed 'Monster Mansion' because it is home to some of the country's most depraved criminals. Originally built as a house of correction in 1594, it was rebuilt in the Victorian era and has a long history of housing our worst criminals.

The longest serving prisoner in the UK penal system, 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley, spent his 51st Christmas behind bars last year. He holds the world record for solitary confinement, kept apart from the rest of the prison population for almost 46 years after a string of attacks. He was first locked up for murder when he was 21 in 1974.

On July 28, 1978, already serving life for double murder, Maudsley killed two fellow prisoners in Wakefield. He was said to have told a prison guard: “There’ll be two short

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