Sixty years after the Great Train Robbery, Duncan Campbell remembers Ronnie Biggs – and other crooks who went AWOL
Ever wanted to disappear? Just slip out of the house one day and start a new life in a new place with a new identity? How easy is it? A bunch of new books by or about people who have been ‘on the run’, sometimes for decades, are full of tips – and warnings – about how to vanish. It’s 60 years since the Great Train Robbery took place on 8th August 1963. It led to the arrest of a dozen or so suspects and the jailing of some of them for 30 years. Those long sentences would prompt the robbers still at large to flee and others to escape from prison and disappear. The mastermind, Bruce Reynolds, fled to Mexico with his wife, Frances, and young son, Nick. The latter, now a musician with the Alabama 3, has produced an audio book, Fugitive! On the Run with Britain’s Most...
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