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Originally Posted by jonty14
Hi.
I have just seen on the news that Ronnie Biggs has been set free. What do people think of this? What people forget it that the train driver of that train was killed by the robbers. He was hit over the head and died later on.
Best regards.
Jonty14
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Train driver was NOT killed by robbers he died some years later of leukemia .
Biggs only played a small part in the robbery (loaded mail bags into truck).
The reason the gaol sentences were so long was because it was a mail train.