`Charles Bronson' gets seven years

London - Britain's most disruptive prisoner - he has spent 21 of the last 25 years in solitary confinement - was given another…

London - Britain's most disruptive prisoner - he has spent 21 of the last 25 years in solitary confinement - was given another seven-year jail term yesterday after admitting taking three fellow prisoners hostage.

The powerfully-built 44-year-old, who legally changed his name to Charles Bronson, barricaded himself with the hostages in a cell and threatened to kill them last September unless he was given a helicopter and sub-machine guns.

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