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Ronald Arthur Biggs (* 8 August 1929 in Lambeth, London) is youngest and most popular member of a British gang of robbers, which attacked the royal mail train from Glasgow on 8 August 1963 with the Bridego railway bridge in Ledburn to London and 2.63 million Pound captured. The assault became under the designation The Great Train Robbery (to German: the large mail train robbery admits.
Since that 7. May 2001 serve Biggs in the Belmarsh prison his term of imprisonment.
Ronald Biggs, later only Ronnie Biggs mentioned, is born on 8 August 1929 in Lambeth. He works and lives up to its 34. Birthday as a Carpenter with its wife Charmian Rothen and its two sons in Redhill in Surrey.
On 8 August 1963, at its 34. Birthday, attacks Biggs as well as Bruce Reynolds, Ronald "Buster "Edward, Charlie Wilson "the Schweiger ", Roy James "the weasel ", Brian Field, Thomas Wisbey, Robert what, Gordon Goody, James Hussey, Rodger Cordrey, James White, William Boal, Leonard Field and John Wheater at 3.10 o'clock in the morning the royal mail train from Glasgow to London. The course is brought to Buckinghamshire at the Bridego railway bridge in Ledburn, close Mentmore, in the county by a manipulated course signal to standing. The platoon leader Jack Mills strikes down Edwards, which dies 7 years later at the consequences.
The robbers capture 120 gold bags with 2.63 million Pound. That would correspond today to a sum of approximately 50 million Pound, therefore 80 million euro.
Biggs states later, with the money also fifty blunt diamonds were robbed, with those three perfectly unknown, never calm gang members escape are. Its statement about a larger number of gang members -- therefore the gang would have consisted of 18 members -- is comprehensible: Biggs got a portion of 148,000 Pound according to own data. Multiplies one this portion by 18 actually comes out an amount, which corresponds to the captured one about.
Authors carry long time with the assault masks and gloves and in such a way look for the police in vain for traces. Finally Scotland yard discovers its finger marks in a remote farm, near which scene, in which county Oxfordshire, in which the robbers had deposited their booty. A team mentioned by policemen under the guidance of Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper, Slipper of the yard, seizes 13 robbers.
1964 are condemned Biggs to 30 years prison, but succeeds to him and Reynolds the escape after 15 months in the Wandsworth Prison. They over-climb at night those well six meters high wall with a Strickleiter and jump by the sawn out hole in the roof of a being available
Biggs flees with its family to Paris, supplies themselves there with falsified papers and lets be face to change. They flee further to Australia and Biggs 1974 from there from alone further to Brazil, after Rio de Janeiro.
In the same year Jack Slipper travels to Brazil, in order to arrest Biggs. Biggs hopes to earn 35,000 Pound by an exclusive interview with the newspaper DAILY Mail. In the hotel Trocadero is Slipper it visited and with the words "hello Ronnie, is not enough not seen! "welcomed.
But the arrest does not succeed. The native Stripperin Raimunda de Castro expects a child of Biggs and it may therefore not be delivered. They call their child, a boy, Michael. On the way back Slipper is taken up sleeping in the airplane by a DAILY Mail photographer - including the empty seat beside him.
Slipper Biggs in Rio visits 1993. With a beer this confesses: "I have nothing more. ""Biggs' mansion was a better sump hut at the wrong end of the city. Its Swimmingpool was so black before algae that Stichlinge would not have even survived therein. ", Slipper describes Biggs' exile, "it turned tourist T-Shirts and spent most time to strike into rusty waste-paper baskets at the beach. "
Due to its status as criminals Biggs in Brazil may not work and makes money with advertisement for alarm installations and the sales of "Ronald Biggs "- coffee cups and T-Shirts with its counter-protect. For 60 dollar it offers a breakfast with a genuine criminal and its Rottweiler blitzkrieg to tourists.
Biggs takes the album The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle and the song NO One Is Innocent with the British Punkband The Sex Pistols 1978, briefly after Johnny gangs left the volume, (to German: Nobody is innocent), up. In addition it plays itself in "the Pistols documentation of the same name "under the direction Julien Temples as "The of exiles ". The film appears 1980.
1981 are kidnapped to Biggs by a group of adventurers, who want to deliver it in Barbados against a reward of the British police. The crime is discovered and it returns to Brazil.
For a while it looks in such a way, as if Michael, Biggs' son, would become member the successful child volume Turma DO Mgico and thus for a further source of income would provide, but soon son in their emergency loses, dissolves and leaves the volume at meaning, father and.
director Lech Majewski the large mail train robbery under the name Prisoner OF Rio films 1988. The film music composed Hans's room, the film script wrote Ronald Biggs. The film appears imprisoned in Germany under the name in Rio.
Years after Ronnies music activities with the Sex Pistols, takes up thirteen Ronnie with the German Punk and celebrates skirt volume the dead trousers the single Carnival to Rio (Punk which) for their album Learning English - Lesson One and with them its 62. Birthday.
1999 signs Biggs and Reynolds a contract with SCi Entertainment. SCi Entertainment would like to develop the computer game The Great Train Robbery with its support. The player is to take over either the role of the police or the role of Biggs. The publication of the play is set on 2002, it appears however not.
To 7. May 2001, with 71 years, after 35 years escape and 30 years in Brazil, returns Biggs as well as Bruce Reynolds from health reasons to England. In Rio it signs an explanation under supervision of the Brazilian police that it returns voluntarily to England. In Brazil Ronald leaves his son Michael and granddaughter Ingrid.
The British boulevard newspaper The Sun spendiert it the return flight in one private jet, 20,000 Pound and different displays and gets as return the exclusive interview rights. On the interview questions Ronnie must give written answers; he cannot speak no more after two impact accumulations.
On the military airport Northolt with London it by sixty Scotland a yard official is arrested. To the immediate arrest Biggs reacts shocked and breaks down schluchzend in its cell in the high safety prison Belmarsh. Under its new address, TC Prison, Western Way, Thamesmead, London SE 28 OEB, he must serve the still which are pending 28 years of its detention. There Ronald Biggs and Raimunda de Castro marry 2002 under strict safety precautions in the prison chapel in the presence Michaels, Ingrids and some photographers.
2003, two years after it Brazil due to health problems left, suffers Biggs after several impact accumulations a cardiac infarct and shifted by the Belmarsh Prison into the Queen Elizabeth hospital. On 10 August 2005 MRSA is diagnosed with Biggs. According to its lawyers, who look for a reason for its dismissal, his death is approaching briefly. In addition it has difficulties when eating and speaking.
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