Girlfriend of UK's longest-serving prisoner begs justice chiefs to let her visit the man she loves

Loveinia MacKenney, from London, wants to visit Robert Maudsley in jail as she describes Britain's longest serving prisoner as the "man she loves"

The man believed to hold the record for the longest prison sentence served died while incarcerated just months before his 102nd birthday. Francis Clifford Smith died in June after serving seventy years in prison and avoiding execution on eight different occasions. Smith was sentenced to death when he was twenty-five ye

The longest-serving inmate in U.S. history died at 101 after escaping the death penalty eight times for the killing of a night watchman at a Connecticut yacht club.

“I’m in here on no evidence at all,” he told the Boston Globe in 2023.

In his first interview in almost 50 years, quadruple killer Robert Maudsley, 73, spoke from his prison cell at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.

Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley, 73, spoke to the Mirror from his prison cell on E Wing in HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire