It’s CHARLES BRONSONS fault he’s still in prison | Wormwood scrubs Governor Vanessa Frake MBE

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]What's your thoughts on Charlie Bronson?

[00:00:01]Should he be released?

[00:00:02]I think it's a disgrace. He's never killed anybody.

[00:00:04]>> No.

[00:00:05]>> What's the danger with him?

[00:00:06]Um the fact that he's taken Is it four or five hostages?

[00:00:11]Um the fact that he did it for his pleasure because every time he did it, he wanted to better his record on the last one. So, if he took a hostage for 10 hours the first one, he'd take another one for 15 hours. The third one he'd take for 24 hours. And the the last one he took, which was an education teacher, he had him tied up like a hog.

[00:00:40]>> nice, obviously.

[00:00:41]>> paraded him round the cell like a dog.

[00:00:44]He kept him for two days. The man never worked again.

[00:00:50]You know, and people forget that about Charlie Bronson.

[00:00:53]Um I I absolutely know his his original crime was a 7-year for burglary.

[00:01:02]Whether Charlie Bronson himself could actually manage outside, whether his his his need to be that cruel and and treat people like that has gone, I don't know.

[00:01:22]Um and that's something for the parole board and obviously, but I I don't I think that Charlie Bronson is a is an individual who is very dangerous. And people don't realize that. They think, "Oh, poor old Charlie.

[00:01:37]He's been in there." But he has made it so he's still in there. Not not anybody else. You know, he got um he got I can't remember the sentences he got, but each one that he took hospital hostage, he got a separate prison sentence for. So, it's Charlie Bronson's fault that he's in still in prison.

[00:01:59]Don't get me wrong, Charlie Bronson is a very talented guy. He can draw, he can write books. He's got loads of published books, hasn't he?

[00:02:05]>> Yes. Yeah, he has. But but is he is he a danger to the public?

[00:02:11]I don't know. That's not my decision, thankfully. That is the parole board's decision.

[00:02:16]>> I don't think they want to take that risk. Do they?

[00:02:19]Well, it depends. I mean, he's just been moved to Wakefield.

[00:02:25]>> field. You know, so he hasn't his his behavior if he if he's behavior had calmed down whilst in prison, you know, he's a six-man unlock. So, it takes six staff to unlock him still. He's still a high-security jail. So, he hasn't worked his way down to a lower security because he can't.