Infamous lag Charles Bronson has done plenty of porridge in his time... now he’s got to pay for the stuff.
The villain was forced to stump up after governors removed oats from the breakfast at Category A Woodhill jail.
It follows a similar menu shake-up at other prisons.
Serial hostage-taker Bronson, 67, orders his from an outside supplier and has it shipped into the Buckinghamshire prison at the cost of 79p per packet.
Bronson revealed his woe in a message to supporters. He said: “I’m ashamed to have to say this, but it’s now 2021 and I’m buying my own f*****g porridge.
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"If I was walking round an exercise yard 40 years ago and said, ‘You know what, in 2021 I’ll be buying my own porridge’, they’d look at me and say ‘Charlie, you need to go back to Broadmoor, mate’.”
In 2019, he filed a complaint after being served croquettes instead of chips on Fish & Chip Friday. Bronson was sentenced to seven years for an armed post office hold-up in 1974.
But he is still inside after having numerous terms added to his tariff for violence in jail.
Last month, he became the first British lag to have a No1 hit when his song Only Mad Men Crawl topped the charts in Cyprus, made number three in Sweden and 31 in the UK.
Bronson hopes to finally be released later this year.
He told the YouTube podcast Anything Goes with James English: “I could be out at the end of this year. I’ve got a public parole hearing. I’m just waiting for the date.”
