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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. English criminal (1929–2013) Ronnie Biggs Buckinghamshire Constabulary mug-shot, 1964 Born Ronald Arthur Biggs (1929-08-08) 8 August 1929 Stockwell, London, England Died 18 December 2013 (2013-12-18) (aged 84) Barnet, London, England Occupation Carpenter Known for Great Train Robbery of ...
Ronnie Biggs - The Inside Story (2009) Hardback book by Mike Gray, a family friend of Biggs and organiser of the Free Ronnie Biggs Campaign 2001–2009. The book tells of Biggs's prison life in Belmarsh and Norwich prisons, from his UK return in May 2001 to his release from Norwich on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
On 8 July 1965, Ronnie Biggs escaped from the prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for his part in the Great Train Robbery. Two years later he fled to Brazil and remained on the run until 2001, when he returned to the UK.
After being sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in 1964, Biggs escaped from Wandsworth Prison in 1965. Biggs travelled via Paris to Spain and then Melbourne, Australia, where, despite plastic surgery to alter his appearance, he was identified by his dental records after visiting a dentist.
In May 2001, aged 71 and having suffered three strokes, Ronnie Biggs voluntarily returned to Britain and was promptly arrested and imprisoned. On 6 August 2009, Biggs was granted release from prison on "compassionate grounds" due to a severe case of pneumonia, after serving only part of the sentence imposed at trial (he did serve more than the ...
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Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 [2] – 28 February 2013) [3] was an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. [4] At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, [5] equivalent to £69 Million today. [6]