Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs denied parole
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs denied parole
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One of Britain’s most notorious criminals, Ronnie Biggs, has been refused parole by Justice Secretary Jack Straw who says the 79-year-old train robber is “wholly unrepentant”.
Straw on Wednesday said Biggs had “outrageously courted the media” during more than three decades on the run after escaping from prison in 1965, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for his role in the 1963 Great Train Robbery.
In a statement, Straw said: “Mr Biggs chose to serve only one year of a 30-year sentence before he took the personal decision to commit another offence and escape from prison, avoiding capture by travelling abroad for 35 years whilst outrageously courting the media.
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“Had he complied with his sentence, he would have been a free man many years ago.”
Biggs’ lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano told the BBC the decision was “perverse” and “obscene”, and said his client was in an extremely frail state.
He said: “He is in hospital, he has a nasal gastric feed, he has had three strokes, he can’t walk, he can’t talk… all the other (Great Train Robbers) served a third of their sentences. Why should Mr Biggs be different?”
The Great Train Robbery saw a 15-strong gang hold up a London to Glasgow mail train, making off with 2.6 million pounds in the money of the day.
The gang attacked the train driver with an iron bar. The driver never returned to work and died seven years later without making a full recovery.
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Biggs played a minor role in the hold-up but was jailed for 30 years in 1964, but escaped by scaling the wall of the prison and jumping onto the roof of a furniture van.
He eventually fled to Brazil, where he was often pictured in British newspapers enjoying a party, but handed himself over to the British authorities in 2001 and was sent back to jail.
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Timeline: Ronnie Biggs
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has led a colourful life, taking part in a record-breaking robbery and becoming a world-famous fugitive from British justice, before eventually returning to the UK of his own free will and subsequently imprisoned.
1929
8 August: Ronald Arthur Biggs is born in Lambeth, south London.
1947
Joins the RAF aged 18, but dishonourably discharged in 1949
1963
Ronnie Biggs received about £140,000 from the Post Office train theft
8 August: Biggs is one of a gang of 15 masked men who stop the Glasgow to London mail train near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire.
They manage to steal 120 bags of money worth £2.6m – a record haul.
Train driver Jack Mills is beaten with an iron bar during the heist and suffers head injuries.
1964
20 January: The trial of the train robbers begins at Buckinghamshire assizes in Aylesbury.
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16 April: Biggs is sentenced to 30 years for his part in the robbery.
1965
8 July: Biggs scales the wall of Wandsworth prison with a home-made rope ladder and drops on to a waiting removal van.
He then flees to Paris, where he has plastic surgery.
1969
He is tracked down to Melbourne, Australia, where he has been living with his first wife, Charmian, and their children.
Before the authorities can catch up with him, he flees to Brazil. The South American country had no extradition treaty with the UK at the time.
1970
Train driver Jack Mills dies of an illness unrelated to the injuries he sustained during the robbery. He never returned to work after being attacked.
1974
Scotland Yard detective Jack Slipper manages to arrest Biggs in Rio de Janeiro after he was tracked down by the Daily Express newspaper.
But Biggs successfully argues against extradition because he has fathered a son, Michael, by his Brazilian girlfriend, Raimunda.
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