He showed frustration at questioning about his past, particularly the incident when he took prison art teacher Phil Danielson hostage for two days in 1999, for which he received an indeterminate life sentence, with a minimum of three years, in 2000. He repeatedly stressed that he had changed and said he would not repeat his past but answered “maybe” when asked whether he regretted his offences and said he was not ashamed of his life or 11 instances of hostage-taking in prison. “I am anti-crime, I am anti-violent, I just want to go out and do my art,” he said. He told the three-person panel at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes: “I am terrified of the consequences of my actions because I know if I do anything serious ever again I will die in prison.”īronson said he spends 23 hours a day in his cell, a large part of it doing art, which he says has raised thousands of pounds for charity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The parole hearing, which began on Monday, is Bronson’s eighth – the previous seven having been unsuccessful – but his first (and just the second ever) to be held in public.
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