A NOTORIOUS criminal has asked for people responsible for graffiti in Aberystwyth calling for his release to stop because they are “breaking the law”- and they have got his name wrong.

The graffiti daubed on the wall of the public shelter alleyway between Queen’s Road and the promenade last week called in capital letters to ‘FREE BRONSON’.

It referenced Charles Bronson - now called Charles Salvador - who has family in Talybont and Aberystwyth.

Originally jailed for seven years in 1974 for armed robbery, his sentence has been regularly extended for crimes including hostage-taking and attacking prison guards.

In a statement released by the Charles Salvador Art Foundation, Mr Salvador said that whoever is writing the graffiti could end up as his “next door neighbour” in prison.

In the statement, Salvador said: “I am honoured and humbled that there are people out there that still believe it is a liberty me being imprisoned.

“But I must say now, whoever is doing this graffiti, please stop.

“Bronson is no more for one thing.

“Bronson is now Charles Salvador, the born-again artist.

“For another thing, I also have no appeal left.

“The only way I will get out is to behave myself and go through the proper channels and get myself a bit of jam roll.

“Which I believe I am entitled to.

“I don’t want to see anybody outside protesting this way, because you are breaking the law and it will end in a sticky situation.

“And you could end up being my next door neighbour."

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