General Chat

Although I don't really have an opinion on whether he should be released or not, I don't think we should forget the train driver, it wasn't just about stealing money, people actually got hurt in this robbery:

From Wikipedia:

"Although no guns were used, the train driver was hit on the head with an iron bar, causing a black eye and facial bruising....... Mills recovered but had constant trauma headaches the rest of his life. He died in 1970 from leukaemia"

I CAN THINK OF MORE DANGEROUS PEOPLE
STILL WALKING THE STREETS
HE IS AN OLD SICK MAN
AND ITS COSTING US ALL
A LOT OF MONEY KEEPING HIM IN PRISON

i agree he should be out
murderers get less i no he escaped
but he was broguht back
he is ill and not a danger to the public
xxx

He lived the high live for 35 years most probably on the proceeds of the robbery...so he has only served 7 years.
So how has he served his time??

I agree, and he is unlikely to do anything wrong, being in such a poor state of health. We had Reggie Kray here in Norwich Prison, and he was let out to die, in a local hotel room in 2001.

Lizx

I THINK ABOUT TIME TO
HIS PART WAS ONLY A MINOR ROLE IN THE ROBBERY

About time to ...I think he's served his time twice over especially when you see the sentences they hand down now or in some cases just a smack on the wrist.

n

I just found this in our local paper:

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was said to be "ecstatic" after learning he will be freed from prison in a year.

Biggs, 78, who is currently in Norwich Prison, was jailed in 2001 after he voluntarily returned to Britain from Rio de Janeiro after 35 years on the run.

He will be released in July 2009 after an agreement was reached about time served by the former fugitive.

Biggs is serving a sentence in Norwich Prison after being transferred from Belmarsh high security jail in south east London.

He was sentenced to 30 years for his role in a 15 strong gang who robbed a Glasgow to London mail train on August 8, 1963 and made off with £2.6m in used banknotes.

His lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano, said: "He is delighted. This has given him the opportunity to spend his last years with his family. I thank the Home Office. Biggs is almost 80 years old. It's time for the old guy to go home."

In recent years Biggs has made several appeals for early release on health grounds. He has had strokes that have left him partially paralysed and MRSA since returning to Britain in 2001.

He was transferred from Belmarsh, South East London, to Norwich jail last year on compassionate grounds.

Mr Di Stefano said his latest appeal was based on Biggs being eligible for release after serving a third of his sentence according to the law in 1963 - the year he was jailed.


Lizx