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For that offence Bronson received a life sentence, eligible for parole after three years. Ever since then he has been isolated in one of the most secure cells in the country, next door to a man who has killed three fellow prisoners. He has been given no opportunity to demonstrate a positive change of attitude or behaviour.

But the time that Bronson has spent in prison is disproportionate to his crimes. He is now being punished simply for being Charles Bronson. Charles Bronson: why it is time for him to be released. In August , Charles announced he was legally changing his name to Charles Salvador - a tribute to the artist Salvador Dali. Bronson was first sentenced to seven years in jail over an armed robbery in - which was extended by nine months after he attacked a fellow prisoner with a glass jug.

The serial criminal was eventually released in , where he changed his name to Charles Bronson on the advice of his bare-knuckle boxing promoter. But it was not long before he was back in jail, after robbing a jewellery shop in and sentenced to seven more years inside. Bronson was released early from his sentence in - but was back behind bars 53 days later for intent to commit robbery.

After holding three men hostage in his cell, the Luton lad saw another seven years added to his sentence - although this was cut to five on appeal. Following further incidents, he was finally given a life sentence after kidnapping a prison teacher in , causing destruction to the prison. Agter being held at a number of prisons across the country - including the likes of Broadmoor and Belmarsh - he returned to HM Prison Woodhill in , where Bronson is currently incarcerated.

In , he insisted that he will be out "sooner than a lot think". But in July Bronson sent a scathing letter to wife Paula saying he would "rather die in prison" than live her "alcohol existence". Charles Bronson turned to art after spending decades behind bars.

With police fearing he might escape, Stephen was soon moved to Brixton Prison's Special Security Unit - a "prison within a prison"- where he found himself reunited with Bronson. It was block, to block, to block. The idea was to manage the most disruptive prisoners in the system and share the burden. Locked up in neighbouring cells, the Category A lags "gelled" over their armed robbery backgrounds, pals they had in common, and "old school values". And Stephen says Bronson would have him in fits of laughter with tales from his time at high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, in Berks.

This geezer used to follow Charlie around and say, 'Go on, I know you can do it, give me your best shot please'. He adds: "Even Charlie - though he may have been having problems at that point to be in there in the first place - said he looked at him and thought, 'this guy is crazy'. Caged for 23 hours a day, the pair only saw each other's faces fleetingly - mostly, through their cell windows when the other was in the yard, or through the cracks in their doors.

However, four years later, the lags were reunited again at HMP Full Sutton, near York, where Stephen says Bronson often stood up to prison bullies and performed press-ups with inmates on his back. During the three months they shared a block in , Stephen and Bronson's fellow inmate, 'M4 rapist' John Steed, hanged himself.

He was found in his cell, next to Stephen's. While at the top-security jail, Stephen - now author of new book The Monkey Puzzle Tree - also bonded with Bronson over their shared love of writing. To date, Bronson has penned at least 11 books. Writing was an escape for me, a chance to create something beautiful. The Finnish author told Express. Look at me now. Near his tanning torso, was the sketch of a book that is shown to have been written by Bronson entitled Freedom Is Wonderful.

In the letter Teemu wrote to Bronson, he described his previous work with refugees from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, which provoked a response from the offender. Teemu told Express. He told Express.