Charles Bronson has been granted a public parole board hearing, taking place next year. He is said to be “Britain’s most notorious prisoner” and the “most violent prisoner in Britain”.

Bronson – who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014, after artist Salvador Dali – is serving a life term at HMP Woodhill in Buckinghamshire.

In a document setting out the decision for the public hearing to take place, parole board chairwoman Caroline Corby said: “I have concluded that a public hearing is in the interests of justice in the case of Mr Salvador. I therefore grant the application for the hearing to be held in public.”

Here’s what we know about Charles Bronson’s life and crimes.

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Charles Bronson was born in Luton, in 1952, and was one of three sons of Eira and Joe Peterson. His aunt, Eileen Parry, referred to him as a “lovely lad”.

“He was obviously bright and always good with children. He was gentle and mild-mannered, never a bully; he would defend the weak,” she said.

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