Britain’s most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson tells parole board he’s ready to leave

Brawling prison inmate Charles Bronson — whose thirst for violence made him the subject of a Tom Hardy film— says he’s ready to be a free man.

An offender manager who’s worked with the 70-year-old felon told a parole board she disagrees, according to the BBC.

“I’ve had enough of it and I want to go home,” Bronson told an English parole board panel Monday. “I’m ready now, I’m a chilled-out man, I feel comfortable in myself.”

Bronson’s watcher agreed the inmate’s anger management skills have improved over the nearly 50 years he’s been imprisoned, but said he “still has a way to go” before getting along with others.

“He would struggle in the community,” the manager said. “He wouldn’t have the skills to cope with such a vast change so quickly.”

The hearing took place at a prison halfway between London and Manchester, where Bronson, born Michael Peterson, is heavily supervised.

According to the BBC, Bronson, a self-proclaimed “born-again artist” only associates with three inmates in his penitentiary, and he doesn’t get along with them. He admitted to having been “very naughty,” which includes fighting with prison guards and taking nearly a dozen hostages over the years.

“I am not proud of it, but I am not ashamed of it,” he told the parole board.

Bronson didn’t deny one incident where he allegedly undressed, then lathered himself in butter so he’d be harder to contain when challenging a dozen guards who came to extract him from the prison yard.

“You have to grow up sooner or later,” he defended.

Bronson reportedly spends an hour outside his cell each day. He was jailed for the first time on an armed robbery charge in 1974 and remained on the wrong side of the law — inside and outside of prison — throughout his life.

If released, Bronson, who now goes by the last name Salvador, said he’d want to walk on grass, swim and attend art shows. Roughly an hour into his parole hearing, Bronson reportedly complained he was “getting bored.”

In “Bronson,” Hardy portrays the film’s subject as an unlicensed fighter who “loved” being in prison and found it “exciting.”

Bronson told the parole board Monday that in the few years of his adult life he didn’t spend behind bars, he participated in six such fights — one with a Rottweiler, he claimed.

“I love a rumble,” he said. “What man doesn’t?”