Robert Maudsley, Serial Killer A Collection of True Crime

"Why can't I have a budgie instead of the spiders and cockroaches I already have in here? I promise to look after it and not eat it…."

The coldly uttered words rang out from the haunting shape of a scraggily middle-aged man, who sat behind the steel doors of a solitary confinement unit in the maximum-security wing of Wakefield Prison in the United Kingdom. This was no ordinary man who had made an error turn in his life. This was not some usual prisoner who had become unruly during a canteen...