Who lives in a house like this? Getting to know residents of 'Monster Mansion'

Prison houses some of most notorious criminals

- BY OLIVIA WILLIAMS

ONE UK prison has been nicknamed “Monster Mansion” due to its history of housing the country’s most notorious criminals.

All prisoners locked up in HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire are classed as Category A, including convicted child sex offenders.

Among them are neo-Nazi paedo phile Jack Renshaw, from Skelmersdale, who bought a 19-inch (48cm) Gladius knife to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper and exact revenge on a female police officer who was investigating him for child sex offences.

Another inmate is a Liverpool born serial killer Robert Maudsley.

Maudsley has been housed in a 'glass cage' at the prison since 1983 after killing four men in the 1970s.

The box is said to bear an uncanny resemblance to the one which housed Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

Other individuals who served or are serving time there include 'Britain's worst rapist' Reynhard Sinaga and 'Dr Death' Dr Harold Shipman.

The Wakefield prison is also where the word 'nonce' a British slang word for paedophile - actually originated, coming from an acronym used by staff there.

A Channel 5 programme shared that the acronym N.O.N.C.E was marked on the cell card of any prisoner who may have been in danger of violence from other prisoners. It meant staff would not open their doors when other prisoners were out. The acronym N.O.N.C.E stands for 'not on normal courtyard exercise, according to the documentary, and apparently was first coined at the jail in Yorkshire.

Here are some of HMP Wakefield’s current and former notorious criminals. It's not an exhaustive list, however they are prominent prisoners.

Jack Renshaw

Neo-Nazi paedo phile Jack Renshaw bought a 19-inch (48cm) gladius knife to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper and exact revenge on a female police officer who was investigating him for child sex offences.