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Report by Peter McLaren­Kennedy

A BRITISH murderer sentenced to life for a double killing and who then murdered two inmates has broken the world record for solitary confinement.

According to a local newspaper on Saturday, January 21, 69­year­old Robert Mawdsley has been in solitary for 16,400 consecutive days.

Mawdsley, who was imprisoned in Wakefield, killed two fellow prisoners in 1978. Afterwards, he is believed to have told a guard: “There’ll be two short on the roll call.”

Following that incident, he was placed in solitary and in 1983 he was moved to a purposebuilt cell after all prison staff refused to see him unaccompanied.

The 5.5 by 4.5 metre cell is slightly larger than the average and is fitted with large bulletproof windows. It is kitted out with a concrete bed,

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Labour­ run Hackney Borough Council signed off plans for what it has billed as “the country’s most ambitious plan” to tackle metal toilet and sink that are bolted to the floor and a table and chair made of compressed cardboard. Mawdsley spends 23 hours out of every 24 locked in the cell that he is said to have described as “like being buried alive in a coffin” and is fed through a small slot in the steel door.