Charles Bronson shares plans for future if he’s released after nearly 50 years

In 1975, he attacked a fellow prisoner with a glass jug and in 1985 he carried out a three-day rooftop protest, the BBC reports.

In 1994, Bronson held a prison librarian hostage and demanded an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea as ransom.

Four years later, he took three inmates hostage at Belmarsh Prison in London.

Then 12 months on, he took a prison education worker hostage for 44 hours at HMP Hull and was sentenced to a discretionary life term, with a minimum of four years.

In 2014, he received a further two-year jail term for holding a prison governor in a headlock at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes. Bronson was refused parole in 2017 while an inmate at HMP Wakefield. But in recent years he has claimed he is a changed man thanks to his son George coming into his life. During a trial in 2018 in which he was cleared of trying to seriously harm a prison governor, he admitted he had been a "very nasty man" in the past. He told the jury how he had held 11 hostages in nine different sieges - including governors, doctors, staff and, on one occasion, his solicitor. In a recent documentary aired by Channel 4, Bronson said he could "taste freedom".