While Charles Bronson sits in his cell on Christmas Day, alone but for a small television set, this is what the Prison Service is allowing the less savoury inmates of "Monster Mansion" to get up to according to The People newspaper. Are you as disgusted by this as Charlie and me are?

HUNTLEY'S KARAOKE CHRISTMAS

The People
24 December 2006
By Rachael Bletchly

EXCLUSIVE Fiend's singalong

SOHAM murderer Ian Huntley will celebrate Christmas with a sing-along karaoke party in his maximum-security prison wing.

The double child-killer will get a chance to sing his favourite songs to fellow lags, who will also be entertained by an inmates' band with the sick nickname The Paedophiliacs.

The party will be the highlight of a day of festivities at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire.

But some staff have slammed the jollies as "disgusting".

The fun will also outrage the parents of Huntley's victims, 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

One officer said: "We should be remembering the families of murdered kiddies like Holly and Jessica, not giving Christmas treats to their killers."

Huntley, 32, will start his Christmas Day knees-up with a special breakfast of cereal, warm baguettes, boiled eggs, fresh yoghurt and fresh fruit juices.

He is currently locked up in the prison's hospital wing but will join other inmates on D wing for the celebrations.

At lunchtime he will feast on a full roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings followed by Christmas pudding with rum sauce.

Some inmates at HMP Wakefield - nicknamed Monster Mansion because it houses so many evil convicts - will spend the afternoon playing cards and pool.

On Boxing Day afternoon they will be able to take part in a four-a-side football tournament.

But Huntley, serving a life sentence for murdering the two girls in Soham, Cambs, prefers to stay in his cell playing on his PlayStation or watching DVDs.

In the afternoon prisoners will be given a selection of cheeses, crackers, teacakes, fresh fruit and coffee.

Then they will spend their evening singing on a karaoke machine and listening to the prisoners' band. Other inmates at the prison include Sarah Payne's killer Roy Whiting, babes-in-the-wood murderer Russell Bishop, serial killer Robert Maudsley and violent hostage-taker Charles Bronson.

A source at the prison told The People: "It's disgusting what the prisoners get at Christmas.

"Most of the staff would like to see them getting bread and milk and nothing else.

"Why should they enjoy Christmas? They should dread it like the families of some of their victims still do."

The source also revealed that jail governor David Thompson sent all prisoners a letter wishing them a happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.

Mr Thompson congratulated the prisoners, staff and volunteers for "making HMP Wakefield a clean and decent establishment".

He went on: "It would also be appropriate for us to think about those for whom this Christmas will be their first without a loved one, for we are all aware of families who this year have been touched by the death of a loved one, so Christmas can be a difficult time too."

Our source said: "Decency is the last thing you encounter in the men in Wakefield Prison.

"It's filled with paedophiles and serial killers who should be treated at Christmas like the scum they are."