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Чарльз Бронсон - один из самых известных заключенных в Британии. Презентация на английском языке.

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CHARLES BRONSON

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CHARLES BRONSON

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Charles Bronson (born Michael Gordon Peterson; 6 December 1952) is one of the most famous of all criminals in the British Prison System.

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For the first time Charles was jailed in 1974 for armed robbery (in which he stole £26.18). His sentence was repeatedly extended by decades for a long list of crimes he committed in jail. While in prison, he began making a name for

himself as a loose cannon, often fighting convicts and prison officers. He also embarked on one-man rooftop protests.

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Regarded as a "problem prisoner", he was moved 120

times throughout Her Majesty’s Prison Serviceand spent most of that time in solitary confinement . What

was originally a seven-year term stretched out to a

fourteen-year sentence that resulted in his first wife, Irene, with whom he had a son, leaving him. He was released on

30 October 1988, but spent merely sixty-nine days as a free man before he was arrested again.

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Upon his release, he began a bare-

knuckle boxing career in the East end

of London . His promoter was unhappy

with his name and suggested he change it

to Charles Bronson.

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He was returned to prison for planning another robbery and continued to be a difficult inmate, instigating numerous hostage

situations. While in jail in 2001, he

married his second wife, Fatema Saira Rehman, a Bangladeshi-born divorcée who inspired him to convert to Islam and

take the name of Charles Ali Ahmed. This second marriage lasted four years before he divorced Rehman and renounced Islam.

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Bronson is one of the highest-profile criminals in Britain and has been featured in books, interviews, and studies in prison reform and treatment.

He is the subject of the 2008 film Bronson, the story based loosely around his life. “Bronson” tells us the madman/misunderstood fellow’s

story from when he was a child getting in fights at school right through

his tumultuous prison life, detailing some of the more famous incidents, although often with some alterations and embellishments.

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Bronson has written many books about his experiences and famous prisoners he has met

throughout his internment. A self-declared fitness fanatic who has spent many years in segregation, Bronson dedicated a book to working out in confined spaces. In his own words: "I'm a nice guy, but sometimes I lose all my senses and become nasty. That doesn't make me evil, just confused."

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Top 10 facts about the notorious prisoner:1. Born Michael Gordon Peterson in 1952 to a respectable middle-class family in Aberystwyth, West Wales, he would eventually move on to Liverpool and then Luton where he would go on to earn a living as a

circus strongman.2. Bronson changed his name to that of the Hollywood star of the Death Wish films.3. Bronson was originally jailed for seven years for armed robbery in 1974 at the age of 19.

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4. To date he has served over 34 years in prison and solitary confinement, spending just 131 days as a free man since his initial imprisonment.5. Weighing 210lbs and standing five feet ten and a half inches tall, Bronson is renowned for his strength, having bent metal cell doors with his bare hands. His daily training regime includes up to 3,000 press-ups a day.6. Bronson holds six world records for feats of strength and fitness and well as an unofficial record for the most prison rooftop protests by any UK inmate.

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7. He carried out his most infamous

hostage incident in 1998, when he took two Iraqi hijackers and another inmate hostage at Belmarsh prison in London.8. In recent years, Bronson has become a

published author and cartoonist. 9. First married in December 1970 to Irene, he has one son named Michael.In 2001, Bronson married again, this time to Saira Rehman, who began writing to him after seeing his picture in a newspaper.10. Bronson's infamy is set to grow with the release in cinemas today of a biopic charting his eventful life. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, it features Tom Hardy in the starring role alongside Silent Witness star Amanda Burton.

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Thank you for your attention!