Charles Bronson’s estranged wife Paula Williamson was writing ‘explosive’ tell-all book about her doomed marriage when she died
CHARLES Bronson's estranged wife was penning a tell-all book about her doomed marriage to Britain's most notorious prisoner when she died, The Sun can reveal.
Paula Williamson's lifeless body was discovered at her home in Stoke-on-Trent last Monday by her new boyfriend Peter Jones, 53, before it could be finished.
In the haunting first few pages of her book - seen by The Sun - she wrote: "Why a reveal all expose book?
"Well, for a start, it was Charlie that initially came up with the idea, and furthermore honoured it by writing the book's foreword.
"Despite being thirty-two years my senior and having spent forty-three years in prison this man seemed to understand the core of me.
"He allowed me to share my innermost thoughts freely with him without fear of embarrassment.
"This, in turn, opened the door and let free my dark sense of self-deprecating humour, allowing it to flow out onto the paper of which I wrote to him."
She tells of her repeated battles with mental health - including Borderline Personality Disorder and bipolar - and reveals her split from Bronson last July was "shocking" and "explosive".
She adds: "When I fall for someone I fall deep, no one else exists in that sense. I get utterly devoted, despite being an outrageous flirt.
"Why then do I feel forever harassed, and tortured by everyone else’s opinions of me, when, as my Mother correctly informs me: ‘Listen girl, the only opinion that actually counts for anything is mine, and your Fathers.’
"Even though my parents haven’t always been behind me on my journey into what has been an extreme and at times catastrophic lust-for-life, they were always there to catch me if I fell."
Paula, 38, wed Bronson at HMP Wakefield in November 2017.
But their marriage fell apart last July when we revealed photos of a man burying himself in her boobs on a drunken holiday.
She was in the process of getting the marriage annulled - on the grounds that it was not consummated - when she died.
Convicted robber Bronson has spent the majority of the past four decades imprisoned for a series of violent crimes.
Last week it was revealed he is to marry again after striking up a romance with a woman of 63 called Joan. It will be his fourth marriage.
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Armed robber Bronson has spent more than 44 years behind bars after repeatedly having his sentence increased for attacking prison staff and taking them hostage.
Writing in his 2000 book Bronson, he said: "I'm a nice guy, but sometimes I lose all my senses and become nasty. That doesn't make me evil, just confused".
He was first sentenced to seven years in jail over an armed robbery in 1974.
That was extended by nine months after he attacked a fellow prisoner with a glass jug.
He was then given an extra year in jail for holding a three-day rooftop protest that cost £100,000 in damages.
After a brief stint of freedom, he was found guilty of intent to robbery and sentenced to eight years in 1992.
His sentence was extended by eight years after he held a prison staff member hostage.
He again became involved in a hostage situation, which again resulted in a sentence extension.
He was finally given a life sentence after kidnapping a prison teacher in 1999, with the violent lag investigated for a number of other disturbances since, including allegedly throwing a bottle of human waste at a Muslim prisoner.
A spokesman for former Coronation Street actress revealed she was close to finishing the story of her life.
Plans to publish it at Christmas are expected to go ahead.
The spokesman said: "In the end she was extremely bitter about what happened with Charlie. She'd done so much for him and felt let down when he ended the marriage.
"She'd started writing her memoir quite a while ago and was in the process of finishing it off with a ghost writer Lee Wortley when she died.
"Her last phone call the night before she was found dead was to her literary agent to discuss what more was needed.
"The book charts her roller-coaster life from the days when she was in contact with House of Horrors serial killer Fred West to her marriage to Charlie Bronson."
As the couple were technically still married when she died the coroner had to seek Bronson's permission for a post-mortem to be conducted on her body.
Sources say Bronson, 66, who has spent 44 years behind bars, gave the go-ahead and offered his condolences to Paula's family.
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Bronson is said to be "shocked and upset" by Paula's death.
He is said to have spoken to his best man Rod Harrison at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, where he is now held.
Bronson has reportedly voiced hopes of being released from prison to attend Paula's funeral.
Any prisoner can apply for a special purposes licence to leave jail for a maximum of four nights for a funeral, marriage or medical treatment.
Mr Jones, a truck driver, hopes to lay his lover to rest on what would have been her 39th birthday, on August 19.
Staffordshire Police confirmed there will be a post mortem examination.
