Britain's most notorious inmate Charles Bronson puts his parole bid in jeopardy ... trends now

Notorious inmate Charles Bronson has had a prison punch-up with a murderer, jeopardising his parole bid for freedom in ten months, the Mail can reveal.

Bronson, 71, hit killer Robert Donaldson with two hooks and two uppercuts when the sick killer tried to attack him on a wing of Category A HMP Woodhill on Monday, a source revealed.

Donaldson, 48, was jailed in 2005 for murdering Paul Bourke, 38, weeks before gagging a deaf 100-year-old woman and beating up her 76-year-old son while they slept.

In 2014, while serving his sentence in HMP Grendon Underwood, he slashed the throat of another inmate using an improvised weapon, severing the jugular vein, and grabbed a prison officer and threatened to cut his neck.

The former crack addict has been detained at HMP Woodhill alongside Bronson for two-and-a-half years but Bronson was so disgusted by his crimes that he had always avoided him, a source said.

The source said Donaldson had angrily charged at Bronson with his fists raised after banging into him as he walked down a landing last week. 

They added: 'Charlie knows this man's history. Donaldson has attacked older people in the same age bracket as Charlie and has also slashed the throat of another inmate using a concealed weapon.

'Charlie obviously feared the worst and could not know if this nasty piece of work was holding a weapon so, to defend himself, he hit Donaldson.

'It was two hooks and two uppercuts. Charlie has been in this position many times before; he knows how to handle himself of course, but it is such a shame because he has been on his best behaviour for six years so now worries this will undo all his work.'

Bronson, who was first convicted in 1974 for armed robbery and now spends 23 hours a day in a cell, lost a parole board bid for freedom last March.

His next opportunity to make a case for his release will come early next

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